Seventy-five-million-year-old tropical tetra-like fish from Canada tracks Cretaceous global warming

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 276, Issue 1674, 2009, Pages 3829-3833

  Newbrey, M G ^a,b   Murray, A M ^b   Wilson, M V H ^b   Brinkman, D B ^a   Neuman, A G ^a  

^a ROYAL TYRRELL MUSEUM OF PALAEONTOLOGY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Biogeography; Characiforms; Gondwana; Ostariophysi; Pangaea

Indexed keywords

BIOGEOGRAPHY; EOCENE; FOSSIL RECORD; GLOBAL WARMING; NATURE RESERVE; PALEONTOLOGY; RECOLONIZATION; TELEOST; TEMPERATURE EFFECT;

ARTICLE; CANADA; CENOZOIC; CHARACIFORMES; CLIMATE CHANGE; CRETACEOUS; ENVIRONMENTAL TEMPERATURE; FISH; FOSSIL; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; GREENHOUSE EFFECT; MEXICO; NONHUMAN; NORTH AMERICA; ORGANISM COLONY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPECIES DISTRIBUTION; TROPICS; UNITED STATES; ANIMAL; ECOSYSTEM; EVOLUTION; HISTOLOGY;

ALBERTA; CANADA; MEXICO [NORTH AMERICA]; TEXAS; UNITED STATES;

CHARACIFORMES; DINOSAURIA; OSTARIOPHYSI; PARACHEIRODON INNESI; PISCES; TETRA;

ANIMALS; CANADA; ECOSYSTEM; EVOLUTION; FISHES; FOSSILS;

EID: 70449730911     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2009.1047     Document Type: Article

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