Long-term faunal stasis without evolutionary coordination: Jurassic benthic marine paleocommunities, Western Interior, United States

Geology

Volumn 24, Issue 9, 1996, Pages 815-818

  Tang, Carol M ^a,b   Bottjer, David J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEPOSITION; ECOLOGY; SEA LEVEL; STRATIGRAPHY;

BIVALVE SPECIES; ECOLOGICAL CHANGES; ECOLOGICAL STABILITY; ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE; ENVIRONMENTAL CONDITIONS; ENVIRONMENTAL DISTURBANCES; LEVEL PROCESS; MARINE INVERTEBRATES; JURASSIC; MESOZOIC;

MOLLUSCS; ECOLOGY;

BENTHIC ENVIRONMENT; BIVALVE; DEPOSITIONAL ENVIRONMENT; INVERTEBRATE; JURASSIC; NEW GENUS; NEW TAXON; PALEOCEANOGRAPHY; ZOOGEOGRAPHICAL REGION; EVOLUTION; FAUNAL STASIS; PALAEOECOLOGY;

WESTERN INTERIOR; USA;

EID: 0030302350     PISSN: 00917613     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/0091-7613(1996)024<0815:LTFSWE>2.3.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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