The Ordovician Biodiversification: Revolution in the oceanic trophic chain

Lethaia

Volumn 41, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 99-109

  Servais, Thomas ^a   Lehnert, Oliver ^b   Li, Jun ^c   Mullins, Gary L ^d   Munnecke, Axel ^b   Nützel, Alexander ^e   Vecoli, Marco ^a  

^a Univ Lille   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

^c NANJING INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND PALAEONTOLOGY   (China)

^d UNIVERSITY OF LEICESTER   (United Kingdom)

^e BAYERISCHE STAATSSAMMLUNG FÜR PALÄONTOLOGIE UND GEOLOGIE   (Germany)

Author keywords

Acritarchs; Evolutionary radiation; Ordovician; Palaeoecology; Phytoplankton; Trophic chain

Indexed keywords

ACRITARCH; CONFERENCE PROCEEDING; MORPHOLOGY; ORDOVICIAN; PALEOECOLOGY; PALEOGEOGRAPHY; PHYTOPLANKTON; TAXONOMY; TROPHIC STATUS;

ACRITARCHA; INVERTEBRATA;

EID: 43549084138     PISSN: 00241164     EISSN: 15023931     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1502-3931.2008.00115.x     Document Type: Conference Paper

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