Ecosystem-wide body-size trends in Cambrian-Devonian marine invertebrate lineages

Paleobiology

Volumn 34, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 210-228

  Novack Gottshall, Philip M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WEST GEORGIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOTA; BODY SIZE; CAMBRIAN; DEVONIAN; ENVIRONMENTAL CONDITIONS; FOSSIL RECORD; INVERTEBRATE; MARINE ECOSYSTEM; PALEOZOIC; TAXONOMY;

ARTHROPODA; BRACHIOPODA; ECHINODERMATA; INVERTEBRATA; MOLLUSCA;

EID: 42249112221     PISSN: 00948373     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1666/0094-8373(2008)034[0210:EBTICM]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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