Impacts and marine invertebrate extinctions

Geological Society Special Publication

Volumn 140, Issue , 1998, Pages 217-246

  Macleod, Norman ^a  

^a DEPARTMENT OF LIFE SCIENCES   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IMPACT; INVERTEBRATE; MARINE ENVIRONMENT; MASS EXTINCTION;

CELLULAR ORGANISMS; INVERTEBRATA;

EID: 0032321973     PISSN: 03058719     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1144/GSL.SP.1998.140.01.16     Document Type: Article

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