Absolute measures of the completeness of the fossil record

Nature

Volumn 398, Issue 6726, 1999, Pages 415-417

  Foote, Mike ^a   Sepkoski Jr , J John ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EVOLUTION; FOSSIL RECORD; PRESERVATION; PROBABILITY;

ARTICLE; EVOLUTION; FOSSIL; GEOLOGY; NONHUMAN; PALEOANTHROPOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TAXONOMY;

NASA DISCIPLINE EXOBIOLOGY; NON-NASA CENTER;

ANIMALS; ECOSYSTEM; EVOLUTION; FOSSILS; INVERTEBRATES; MARINE BIOLOGY; MOLLUSCA; PALEONTOLOGY; PHYLOGENY;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 0033119220     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/18872     Document Type: Article

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