Using simple body-size metrics to estimate fossil body volume: Empirical validation using diverse paleozoic inverterbrates

Palaios

Volumn 23, Issue 3-4, 2008, Pages 163-173

  Novack Gottshall, Philip M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WEST GEORGIA   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

BODY SIZE; EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS; ESTIMATION METHOD; FOSSIL ASSEMBLAGE; INVERTEBRATE; MODELING; MORPHOLOGY; PALEOECOLOGY; PALEONTOLOGY; PALEOZOIC; SPECIES DIVERSITY; TAXONOMY;

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EID: 42249112601     PISSN: 08831351     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2110/palo.2007.p07-017r     Document Type: Article

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