Comparative geographic and environmental diversity dynamics of gastropods and bivalves during the Ordovician radiation

Paleobiology

Volumn 29, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 576-604

  Novack Gottshall, Philip M ^a   Miller, Arnold I ^b  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE RADIATION; EVOLUTION; FOSSIL ASSEMBLAGE; ORDOVICIAN; PALEOECOLOGY; PALEOENVIRONMENT;

BIVALVIA; GASTROPODA;

EID: 0345149769     PISSN: 00948373     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1666/0094-8373(2003)029<0576:CGAEDD>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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