Changes in cavernicolous bivalve assemblages and environments within a submarine cave in the Okinawa Islands during the last 5,000 years

Paleontological Research

Volumn 11, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 163-182

  Kitamura, Akihisa ^a   Hiramoto, Mayumi ^a   Kase, Tomoki ^b   Yamamoto, Nagisa ^a   Amemiya, Mariko ^a   Ohashi, Shu Ichi ^c  

^a SHIZUOKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b DEPARTMENT OF BOTANY   (Japan)

^c Kaiyo Planning Co Ltd   (Japan)

Author keywords

Cavernicolous bivalves; Environmental changes; Ie Island; Submarine cave deposits

Indexed keywords

BIVALVE; CAVE DEPOSIT; CAVERNICOLOUS SPECIES; DEPOSITIONAL ENVIRONMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE; ENVIRONMENTAL CONDITIONS; FOSSIL ASSEMBLAGE; PALEOECOLOGY; PALEOENVIRONMENT; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; SUBMARINE CAVE; TEMPORAL DISTRIBUTION;

ASIA; EURASIA; FAR EAST; IE ISLAND; JAPAN; OKINAWA ISLANDS; OKINAWA [RYUKYU ISLANDS]; RYUKYU ISLANDS;

BIVALVIA;

EID: 34547131590     PISSN: 13428144     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2517/1342-8144(2007)11[163:CICBAA]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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