Discovery of fish mortality horizon at the K-T boundary on Seymour Island: Re-evaluation of events at the end of the Cretaceous

Journal of Paleontology

Volumn 72, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 556-571

  Zinsmeister, William J ^a  

^a PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRETACEOUS-TERTIARY BOUNDARY; CRETACEOUS/TERTIARY BOUNDARY; EXTINCTION; FISH; FISH MORTALITY; MASS EXTINCTION; MASS MORTALITY;

ANTARCTIC PENINSULA; ANTARCTICA; SEYMOUR ISLAND;

CAMELIDAE;

EID: 0031966975     PISSN: 00223360     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0022336000024331     Document Type: Article

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