Limits to knowledge of the fossil record

Zoology

Volumn 100, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 221-231

  Carroll, R L ^a  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Evolutionary patterns and rates; Fossil records; Radiometric dating; Sedimentations

Indexed keywords

VERTEBRATA;

EVOLUTION; FOSSIL RECORD; GEOLOGICAL BOUNDARY; VERTEBRATE;

EID: 0031398498     PISSN: 09442006     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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