Biostratigraphic deception by the Devil, salting fossil kollinbrains into the Poobahcene section of central Myroaming

Palaeontographica, Abteilung A: Palaozoologie - Stratigraphie

Volumn 277, Issue 1-6, 2006, Pages 1-17

  McKenna, Malcolm C ^a   Lillegraven, Jason A ^a  

^a NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

Biostratigraphy; Crustaceous period; Faith based biostratigraphy; First appearance datums; Heaven's whole hectare; Hidden assumptions; Interval zones; K zones; Kollinbrains; Last appearance datums; Malevolent causation; Myroaming; Oppelian zonation; Poobahcene epoch; Random numbers; Sampling bias; Special pleading; Stratofanatics; Taxonomic mumbo jumbo

Indexed keywords

BIOSTRATIGRAPHY; FOSSIL ASSEMBLAGE; FOSSIL RECORD; PALEOBIOGEOGRAPHY; PALEOENVIRONMENT;

EID: 37849185300     PISSN: 03750442     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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