Fossil plankton depth zones

Palaeoworld

Volumn 18, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 213-234

  Boucot, A J ^a   Chen, Xu ^b  

^a OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NANJING INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND PALAEONTOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

Correlation precision of combined planktonic and benthonic fossil data; Depth of plankton maximum abundance; Lower depth limit of fossil plankton; Upper depth limit of fossil plankton

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; BENTHOS; BIOSTRATIGRAPHY; EXTINCTION; FOSSIL RECORD; INVERTEBRATE; NEARSHORE ENVIRONMENT; ORDOVICIAN; PALEOBIOLOGY; PLANKTON; SILURIAN; TAXONOMY; VERTICAL DISTRIBUTION;

EID: 71549149315     PISSN: 1871174X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.palwor.2009.05.002     Document Type: Article

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