Phanerozoic non-actualistic paleoecology

Geobios

Volumn 30, Issue 7, 1997, Pages 885-893

  Bottjer, David J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Actualism; Anachronistic ecology; Anachronistic facies; Microbial structures; Non actualism; Paleoecology

Indexed keywords

ACTUALISM; NON ACTUALISM; PALAEOECOLOGY; PHANEROZOIC;

EID: 0031400704     PISSN: 00166995     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0016-6995(97)80213-6     Document Type: Article

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