Increase of shell-crushing predation recorded in fossil shell fragmentation

Paleobiology

Volumn 29, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 520-526

  Oji, Tatsuo ^a   Ogaya, Chigusa ^a   Sato, Takehiro ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b KANAGAWA PREFECTURAL MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRUSHING; FOSSIL; MESOZOIC; MORPHOLOGY; PREDATION; SHELL;

BIVALVIA; CRUSTACEA; GASTROPODA; PISCES; TELEOST FISH;

EID: 0345581650     PISSN: 00948373     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1666/0094-8373(2003)029<0520:IOSPRI>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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