Applicability and resolving power of statistical tests for simultaneous extinction events in the fossil record

Paleobiology

Volumn 29, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 37-51

  Payne, Jonathan L ^a  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

BIOSTRATIGRAPHY; EXTINCTION; FOSSIL RECORD; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

AMMONOIDEA;

EID: 0037412350     PISSN: 00948373     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1666/0094-8373(2003)029<0037:AARPOS>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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