The significance of vertebrate microfossil size and shape distributions for faunal abundance reconstructions: A Late Cretaceous example

Paleobiology

Volumn 22, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 422-435

  Blob, Richard W ^a   Fiorillo, Anthony R ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^b Dallas Museum of Natural History   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRETACEOUS; FAUNAL ABUNDANCE; MICROVERTEBRATE; PALAEOECOLOGY; TAPHONOMY;

USA, MONTANA;

EID: 0030437683     PISSN: 00948373     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0094837300016377     Document Type: Article

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