Closing the phosphatization window: Testing for the influence of taphonomic megabias on the pattern of small shelly fossil decline

Palaios

Volumn 19, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 178-183

  Porter, Susannah M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CAMBRIAN; FOSSIL; PHOSPHATIZATION; SHELL; TAPHONOMY;

EID: 1842639550     PISSN: 08831351     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1669/0883-1351(2004)019<0178:CTPWTF>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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