Can the Lilliput Effect be detected in the brachiopod faunas of South China following the terminal Ordovician mass extinction?

Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology

Volumn 285, Issue 3-4, 2010, Pages 277-286

  Huang, Bing ^a   Harper, David A T ^b   Zhan, Renbin ^a   Rong, Jiayu ^a  

^a NANJING INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND PALAEONTOLOGY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Lilliput Effect; Mass extinction; Ordovician; South China; Survival

Indexed keywords

BIVALVE; BODY SIZE; DOMINANCE; MASS EXTINCTION; PALEOBIOGEOGRAPHY; PALEONTOLOGY; SURVIVAL;

CHINA;

BRACHIOPODA; ORTHOIDEA; STROPHOMENOIDEA;

EID: 72749123935     PISSN: 00310182     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.palaeo.2009.11.020     Document Type: Article

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