Confidence intervals on stratigraphic ranges with nonrandom distributions of fossil horizons

Paleobiology

Volumn 23, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 165-173

  Marshall, Charles R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

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[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FOSSIL RECORD; STRATIGRAPHIC RANGE;

EID: 0030859884     PISSN: 00948373     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0094837300016766     Document Type: Article

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