Paleoenvironmental reconstruction of the Upper Cretaceous Hell Creek Formation of the Williston Basin, Montana, USA: Implications from the quantitative analysis of unionoid bivalve taxonomic diversity and morphologic disparity

Palaios

Volumn 22, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 24-34

  Scholz, Henning ^a   Hartman, Joseph H ^b  

^a HUMBOLDT UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NORTH DAKOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIVALVE; CRETACEOUS; FAUNA; FOSSIL ASSEMBLAGE; MORPHOLOGY; PALEOENVIRONMENT; SHELL; TAXONOMY;

NORTH AMERICA; WILLISTON BASIN;

BIVALVIA; PLEUROBEMA; UNIONOIDA;

EID: 34547629732     PISSN: 08831351     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2110/palo.2005.p05-059r     Document Type: Article

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