Extinction, diversity and survivorship of taxa in the fossil record

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 266, Issue 1428, 1999, Pages 1593-1599

  Newman, M E J ^a   Sibani, Paolo ^b  

^a SANTA FE INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN DENMARK   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Diversity; Extinction; Fossil record; Survivorship

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; DATA BASE; FOSSIL; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SURVIVAL;

EID: 0033533060     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.1999.0820     Document Type: Article

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