Completeness of a fossil record: The Pleistocene echinoids of the Antilles

Lethaia

Volumn 36, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 1-7

  Donovan, Stephen K ^a  

^a NATURALIS BIODIVERSITY CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Antilles; Echinoids; Fossil record; Pleistocene

Indexed keywords

ECHINODERM; FOSSIL RECORD; PALEOBIOGEOGRAPHY; PLEISTOCENE; SPECIES DIVERSITY;

CARIBBEAN ISLANDS;

ECHINODERMATA; ECHINOIDA; ECHINOIDEA; INVERTEBRATA;

EID: 0038660629     PISSN: 00241164     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00241160310001227     Document Type: Article

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