Late Albian adaptive radiation in the calcareous nannofossil genus Eiffellithus

Micropaleontology

Volumn 49, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 231-250

  Watkins, David K ^a   Bergen, James A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA LINCOLN   (United States)

^b BP AMERICA INC   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE RADIATION; ALBIAN; MORPHOLOGY; NANOFOSSIL; NEW SPECIES; OCEAN DRILLING PROGRAM; SPECIATION (BIOLOGY); TAXONOMY;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN (NORTHWEST);

ALBIA;

EID: 0842284590     PISSN: 00262803     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2113/49.3.231     Document Type: Article

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