Strategies of survival during extreme environmental perturbations: Evolution of conodonts in response to the Kellwasser crisis (upper devonian)

Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology

Volumn 146, Issue 1-4, 1999, Pages 19-32

  Renaud, Sabrina ^a,c   Girard, Catherine ^b  

^a INSTITUT DES SCIENCES DE L EVOLUTION   (France)

^b Lab de Paleontol et Paleoecologie   (France)

^c GEOLOGICAL INSTITUTE   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Canonical variates; Conodont; Fourier analysis; Kellwasser crisis; Shape; Size

Indexed keywords

DEVONIAN; EVOLUTION; SURVIVAL;

CONODONTA; ENTOVALVA; ICRIODUS; PALMATOLEPIS;

EID: 0033557809     PISSN: 00310182     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0031-0182(98)00138-2     Document Type: Article

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