Charting the late cretaceous Seas: Mosasaur richness and morphological diversification

Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology

Volumn 29, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 409-416

  Ross, Marcus R ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF RHODE ISLAND   (United States)

^b LIBERTY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; BIOSTRATIGRAPHY; CENOMANIAN; CRETACEOUS; DINOSAUR; DIVERSITY INDEX; EXTINCTION; MORPHOLOGY; NICHE; PALEOCEANOGRAPHY; PALEOECOLOGY; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SPECIES RICHNESS;

CONIACIAN; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 67651102846     PISSN: 02724634     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1671/039.029.0212     Document Type: Article

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