Time-averaging and postmortem skeletal survival in benthic fossil assemblages: Quantitative comparisons among Holocene environments

Paleobiology

Volumn 23, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 207-229

  Meldahl, Keith H ^a   Flessa, Karl W ^b   Cutler, Alan H ^c  

^a OBERLIN COLLEGE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^c SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BENTHIC FAUNA; BIVALVE; CHIOME; HOLOCENE; TAPHONOMY; TIME AVERAGING; VENERID;

MEXICO, BAJA CALIFORNIA SUR, BAHIA CONCEPTION; MEXICO, SONORA STATE, BAHIA LA CHOYA;

EID: 0030813765     PISSN: 00948373     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0094837300016791     Document Type: Article

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