Improving with age: The fossil record of lingulide brachiopods and the nature of taphonomic megabiases

Geology

Volumn 24, Issue 11, 1996, Pages 977-980

  Kowalewski, Michał ^a   Flessa, Karl W ^a  

^a University of Arizona   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

STRATIGRAPHY;

FOSSIL RECORDS; PALEOZOIC; SCALE DISTORTION; TAPHONOMY; TEMPORAL CHANGE;

BIOLOGICAL MATERIALS PRESERVATION;

BRACHIOPOD; FOSSIL RECORD; FOSSILIZATION; PALEONTOLOGY; PALEOZOIC; TAPHONOMY; TEMPORAL VARIATION; LINGULID; TAPHONOM;

EID: 0030440431     PISSN: 00917613     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/0091-7613(1996)024<0977:IWATFR>2.3.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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