Vertebrate extinctions and reorganizations during the Late Silurian Lau Event

Geology

Volumn 37, Issue 8, 2009, Pages 739-742

  Eriksson, Mats E ^a   Nilsson, Eva K ^a   Jeppsson, Lennart ^a  

^a LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EVOLUTIONARY HISTORY; FISH FAUNA; POSITIVE STABLE; SILURIAN PERIOD; TIME SPAN;

ISOTOPES; MEATS;

ANIMALS;

ESTIMATION METHOD; EXTINCTION; PHANEROZOIC; SILURIAN; TAXONOMY; VERTEBRATE;

EURASIA; EUROPE; GOTLAND; NORTHERN EUROPE; SCANDINAVIA; SWEDEN;

VERTEBRATA;

EID: 69649098994     PISSN: 00917613     EISSN: 00917613     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/G25709A.1     Document Type: Article

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