Assessing the ecological dominance of phanerozoic marine invertebrates

Palaios

Volumn 21, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 431-441

  Clapham, Matthew E ^a   Bottjer, David J ^a   Powers, Catherine M ^a   Bonuso, Nicole ^b   Fraiser, Margaret L ^c   Marenco, Pedro J ^a   Dornbos, Stephen Q ^c   Pruss, Sara B ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MILWAUKEE   (United States)

^d HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; BIVALVE; BRACHIOPOD; DOMINANCE; FOSSIL ASSEMBLAGE; FOSSIL RECORD;

BIVALVIA; BRACHIOPODA; GASTROPODA; INVERTEBRATA;

EID: 33750216010     PISSN: 08831351     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2110/palo.2005.P05-017R     Document Type: Article

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