Increased Longevities of Post-Paleozoic Marine Genera After Mass Extinctions

Science

Volumn 302, Issue 5647, 2003, Pages 1030-1032

  Miller, Arnold I ^a   Foote, Michael ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GEOGRAPHICAL REGIONS; GEOLOGY;

MASS EXTINCTIONS;

MARINE BIOLOGY;

LONGEVITY; MARINE ENVIRONMENT; MASS EXTINCTION; PALEOZOIC; PHANEROZOIC; RECOVERY; SPECIES DIVERSITY;

ARTICLE; ARTIFACT; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; GEOLOGY; LONGEVITY; MARINE ENVIRONMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPECIES EXTINCTION; TAXONOMY;

ANIMALS; BIODIVERSITY; CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; EVOLUTION; GEOGRAPHY; MARINE BIOLOGY; PALEONTOLOGY; TIME;

EID: 0242410720     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.1089719     Document Type: Article

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