Palaeontology: Grasping the opportunities in the science of the twenty-first century

Geobios

Volumn 30, Issue 7, 1997, Pages 895-904

  Conway Morris, Simon ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Cambrian; Convergence; Ediacaran; Mass extinction (K T); Metazoa; Molecular "clocks"; Oxygen

Indexed keywords

CAMBRIAN; CRETACEOUS-TERTIARY BOUNDARY; EXTINCTION; PALAEONTOLOGY;

EID: 0031400733     PISSN: 00166995     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0016-6995(97)80214-8     Document Type: Article

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