Preliminary report on the Late Ordovician graptolite extinction in the Yangtze region

Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology

Volumn 245, Issue 1-2, 2007, Pages 82-94

  Fan, Junxuan ^a   Chen, Xu ^a  

^a NANJING INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND PALAEONTOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

China; Graphic correlation; Graptolites; Mass extinction; Rarefaction; Species area relationship

Indexed keywords

ASHGILLIAN; FOOD WEB; GRAPTOLITE; HOME RANGE; LLANDOVERIAN; MASS EXTINCTION; ORDOVICIAN; SILURIAN; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SPECIES-AREA RELATIONSHIP; WATER TEMPERATURE;

ASIA; CHINA; EURASIA; FAR EAST; YANGTZE BASIN;

NORMALOGRAPTUS EXTRAORDINARIUS; NORMALOGRAPTUS PERSCULPTUS;

EID: 33847050304     PISSN: 00310182     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.palaeo.2006.02.019     Document Type: Article

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