Record of climate-driven morphological changes in 376 Ma Devonian fossils

Geology

Volumn 36, Issue 11, 2008, Pages 907-910

  Balter, Vincent ^a   Renaud, Sabrina ^b   Girard, Catherine ^c   Joachimski, Michael M ^d  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE LYON   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ LYON 1   (France)

^c UNIV MONTPELLIER   (France)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANOXIC EVENTS; BIOMASS PRODUCTIONS; CARBON ISOTOPES; DEVONIANS; ENVIRONMENTAL INFLUENCES; ISOTOPE RECORD; MASS EXTINCTION; MORPHOLOGICAL CHANGES; MORPHOLOGICAL VARIATION; MORPHOMETRICS; NUTRIENT SUPPLY; ORGANIC CARBON BURIAL; OXYGEN ISOTOPIC; OXYGEN ISOTOPIC COMPOSITION; POSITIVE EXCURSION; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURES; TROPHIC LEVEL; TROPHIC POSITION;

ANIMALS; BIOMASS; ISOTOPES; MORPHOLOGY; OXYGEN; PHOSPHATE MINERALS;

ORGANIC CARBON;

CONODONT; DEVONIAN; FRASNIAN-FAMENNIAN BOUNDARY; ISOTOPIC COMPOSITION; MORPHOLOGY; MORPHOMETRY; OXYGEN ISOTOPE; PALEOCLIMATE; PALEOENVIRONMENT; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE;

ANIMALIA; PALMATOLEPIS;

EID: 69649094534     PISSN: 00917613     EISSN: 00917613     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/G24989A.1     Document Type: Article

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