Species richness and abundance patterns of Tethyan Cretaceous rudist bivalves (Mollusca: Hippuritacea) in the central-eastern Mediterranean and Middle East, analysed from a palaeontological database

Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology

Volumn 162, Issue 1-2, 2000, Pages 75-104

  Steuber, Thomas ^a   Löser, Hannes ^b  

^a RUHR UNIVERSITY BOCHUM   (Germany)

^b Museum fur Mineralogie und Geologie   (Germany)

Author keywords

Cretaceous; Palaeobiogeography; Palaeontological database; Rudists; Species richness

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; CRETACEOUS; PALEONTOLOGY; SPECIES RICHNESS; TETHYS;

MEDITERRANEAN REGION; MIDDLE EAST;

AVES; BIVALVIA; CONIACIAN; HIPPURITOIDEA; INVERTEBRATA; MELEAGRIS GALLOPAVO; MOLLUSCA; RADIOLITIDAE;

EID: 0034666021     PISSN: 00310182     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0031-0182(00)00106-1     Document Type: Article

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