Rates of speciation in the fossil record

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 353, Issue 1366, 1998, Pages 315-326

  Sepkoski Jr , J John ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

Biodiversity; Biotic history; Extinction; Mass extinction; Recovery from extinction; Speciation

Indexed keywords

FOSSIL RECORD; PHANEROZOIC; SPECIATION;

ANIMALIA; CELLULAR ORGANISMS;

EID: 0032574316     PISSN: 09628436     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rstb.1998.0212     Document Type: Article

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