Faunal changes across the Cretaceous-Tertiary (K-T) boundary in the Atlantic coastal plain of New Jersey: Restructuring the marine community after the K-T mass-extinction event

Special Paper of the Geological Society of America

Volumn 356, Issue , 2002, Pages 291-301

  Gallagher, William B ^a,b  

^a New Jersey State Museum   (United States)

^b RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL MATERIALS PRESERVATION; ECOSYSTEMS; FERTILIZERS;

FAUNAL CHANGE; FOSSIL DISCOVERIES; LATE CRETACEOUS; MARINE COMMUNITY; MARINE INVERTEBRATES; MASS EXTINCTION EVENTS; SIGNIFICANT DISCOVERY; VERTEBRATE FOSSILS;

GEOLOGY;

BIOSTRATIGRAPHY; COASTAL PLAIN; CRETACEOUS-PALEOGENE BOUNDARY; DANIAN; FOSSIL RECORD; GEOCHRONOLOGY; MAASTRICHTIAN; MARINE ECOSYSTEM; MARL; MINING INDUSTRY; VERTEBRATE;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; NEW JERSEY; UNITED STATES;

EID: 0842321406     PISSN: 00721077     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1130/0-8137-2356-6.291     Document Type: Article

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