Caribbean historical biogeography: Was the dispersal-vicariance debate eliminated by an extraterrestrial bolide?

Herpetologica

Volumn 52, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 440-465

  Crother, Brian I ^a   Guyer, Craig ^b  

^a SOUTHEASTERN LOUISIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b AUBURN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Caribbean tectonic history; Cladistic biogeography; Cretaceous Tertiary (K T) bolide; Dispersal; Immunological distance clock; Tsunamis; Vicariance

Indexed keywords

BIOGEOGRAPHY; CRETACEOUS-TERTIARY BOUNDARY; DISPERSAL; EXTRATERRESTRIAL BOLIDE; HERPETOLOGY; VICARIANCE;

CARIBBEAN;

EID: 0030437411     PISSN: 00180831     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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