Miocene whale-fall from California demonstrates that cetacean size did not determine the evolution of modern whale-fall communities

Biology Letters

Volumn 3, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 709-711

  Pyenson, Nicholas D ^a   Haasl, David M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Body size; Cetacea; Deep sea communities; Fossil record; Vesicomyidae; Whale fall

Indexed keywords

BIVALVIA; CETACEA; INVERTEBRATA; VESICOMYIDAE;

ANIMAL; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ARTICLE; BIODIVERSITY; BODY SIZE; EVOLUTION; FOSSIL; HISTOLOGY; MOLLUSC; PHYSIOLOGY; UNITED STATES; WHALE;

ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; BIODIVERSITY; BODY SIZE; CALIFORNIA; EVOLUTION; FOSSILS; MOLLUSCA; WHALES;

EID: 38449123684     PISSN: 17449561     EISSN: 1744957X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsbl.2007.0342     Document Type: Article

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