Palaeopathological fish bones from phosphorites of the Lake Manyara area, Northern Tanzania - Fossil evidence of a physiological response to survival in an extreme biocenosis

Environmental Geochemistry and Health

Volumn 24, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 131-140

  Schlüter, Thomas ^a   Kohring, Rolf ^b  

^a United Nations Educational Scientific and Cultural Organization's Nairobi   (Kenya)

^b FREIE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Fluorine; Hyperostosis; Phosphorites; Pliocene pleistocene; Tanzania

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; FISH; LACUSTRINE ENVIRONMENT; PALEOECOLOGY; PATHOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGICAL RESPONSE;

TANZANIA;

PISCES;

EID: 0036210848     PISSN: 02694042     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1014207530176     Document Type: Article

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