Influence of transportation and time-averaging in fossil assemblages from the Pennsylvanian of Oklahoma

Lethaia

Volumn 30, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 315-329

  Olszewski, Thomas D ^a   West, Ronald R ^b  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b KANSAS STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Paleoecology; Presence absence data; Relative abundance data; Taphonomy; Time averaging; Transportation

Indexed keywords

INVERTEBRATA;

CARBONIFEROUS; FOSSIL ASSEMBLAGE; PENNSYLVANIAN; SHELL TRANSPROTATION; TAPHONOMY;

USA, OKLAHOMA, HUGHES COUNTY;

EID: 0031284444     PISSN: 00241164     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1502-3931.1997.tb00475.x     Document Type: Article

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