Coordinated stasis: Biofacies revisited and the conceptual modeling of whole-fauna dynamics

Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology

Volumn 127, Issue 1-4, 1996, Pages 157-175

  Schopf, Kenneth M ^a  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

biofacies; conceptual models; evolution; paleoecology

Indexed keywords

BIOFACIES; COORDINATED STASIS; EVOLUTION; PALAEOECOLOGY;

EID: 0030595822     PISSN: 00310182     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0031-0182(96)00093-4     Document Type: Article

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