Body-size evolution in cretaceous molluscs and the status of Cope's rule

Nature

Volumn 385, Issue 6613, 1997, Pages 250-252

  Jablonski, David ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BODY SIZE; EVOLUTION; MOLLUSC; PHYSICAL ANTHROPOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

BODY SIZE; COPE'S RULE; PALAEOECOLOGY; TEMPORAL VARIATION;

EID: 0030621138     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/385250a0     Document Type: Article

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