Telling time from fossils: A phylogeny-based approach to chronological ordering of paleobiotas

Cladistics

Volumn 24, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 350-371

  Makovicky, Peter J ^a  

^a FIELD MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOCHRONOLOGY; BIOSTRATIGRAPHY; CLADISTICS; CRETACEOUS; FOSSIL; FOSSIL RECORD; PHYLOGENY; SEDIMENTARY ROCK; SYNTAXONOMY; VERTEBRATE;

ASIA; EURASIA; FAR EAST; GOBI DESERT;

VERTEBRATA;

EID: 43549097848     PISSN: 07483007     EISSN: 10960031     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1096-0031.2007.00184.x     Document Type: Article

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