Calibrating the Ordovician radiation of marine life: Implications for Phanerozoic diversity trends

Paleobiology

Volumn 22, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 304-309

  Miller, Arnold I ^a   Foote, Mike ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; FAUNAL RADIATION; MARINE LIFE; ORDOVOCIAN; PHANEROZOIC; SAMPLE SIZE;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIOLOGY; BIOMETRY; CLASSIFICATION; ECOSYSTEM; EVOLUTION; FACTUAL DATABASE; FOSSIL; INVERTEBRATE; MOLLUSC; NASA DISCIPLINE EXOBIOLOGY; NON-NASA CENTER; PALEONTOLOGY; SAMPLE SIZE; STATISTICS;

NASA DISCIPLINE EXOBIOLOGY; NON-NASA CENTER;

ANIMALS; BIOMETRY; DATABASES, FACTUAL; ECOSYSTEM; EVOLUTION; FOSSILS; INVERTEBRATES; MARINE BIOLOGY; MOLLUSCA; PALEONTOLOGY; SAMPLE SIZE;

ANIMALIA; BRACHIOPODA; INVERTEBRATA; MOLLUSCA; TRILOBITOMORPHA;

EID: 0030468229     PISSN: 00948373     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0094837300016237     Document Type: Article

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