Selectivity of extinction among sea urchins at the end of the Cretaceous period

Nature

Volumn 392, Issue 6671, 1998, Pages 69-71

  Smith, Andrew B ^a   Jeffery, Charlotte H ^a  

^a DEPARTMENT OF LIFE SCIENCES   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRETACEOUS; EXTINCTION; FEEDING STRATEGY; NUTRIENT SUPPLY; SEA URCHIN;

ARTICLE; FEEDING; NONHUMAN; PHYSICAL ANTHROPOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEA URCHIN; SURVIVAL; TAXONOMY;

EID: 0032485369     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/32155     Document Type: Article

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