Models of vertebrate mass mortality events at the K/T boundary

Special Paper of the Geological Society of America

Volumn 307, Issue , 1996, Pages 375-379

  Cutler, Alan H ^a   Behrensmeyer, Anna K ^a  

^a DEPARTMENT OF PALEOBIOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

POPULATION STATISTICS;

ASTEROID IMPACT; LATE CRETACEOUS; MASS MORTALITY; POPULATION DENSITIES; ROCK RECORDS; TERRESTRIAL FOSSILS; TIME-AVERAGED;

DEPOSITS;

ASTEROID; BIOSTRATIGRAPHY; BONE; CRETACEOUS-PALEOGENE BOUNDARY; DINOSAUR; MASS MORTALITY; PALEOBIOGEOGRAPHY; SKELETAL REMAINS;

EID: 0012463102     PISSN: 00721077     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1130/0-8137-2307-8.375     Document Type: Article

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