Ecological restructuring after extinction: The Late Ordovician (Mohawkian) of the eastern United States

Palaios

Volumn 24, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 118-130

  Layou, Karen M ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

^b The College of William and Mary   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOSTRATIGRAPHY; EXTINCTION; FOSSIL RECORD; ORDOVICIAN; PALEOECOLOGY; PALEOENVIRONMENT; PALEOGEOGRAPHY; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SEDIMENTARY SEQUENCE; SPECIES DIVERSITY; TAXONOMY;

APPALACHIAN BASIN; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 60649114299     PISSN: 08831351     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2110/palo.2008.p08-012r     Document Type: Article

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