Combining morphometric and paleoecological analyses: Examining small-scale dynamics in species-level and community-level evolution

Palaeontologia Electronica

Volumn 8, Issue 2, 2005, Pages

  Tang, Carol ^a   Pantel, Jelena H ^a,b  

^a CALIFORNIA ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

Author keywords

Bivalves; Dominican Republic; Evolutionary paleoecology; Neogene

Indexed keywords

BIVALVIA; PECTEN;

EID: 27744503667     PISSN: 10948074     EISSN: 10948074     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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