Trophic group and the end-Cretaceous extinction: Did deposit feeders have it made in the shade?

Paleobiology

Volumn 22, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 104-112

  Levinton, Jeffrey S ^a  

^a STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIVALVE; CRETACEOUS/TERTIARY BOUNDARY; DEPOSIT FEEDER; INVERTEBRATE; TROPHIC GROUP;

EID: 0029774162     PISSN: 00948373     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0094837300016055     Document Type: Article

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