Taphonomic bias and time-averaging in tropical molluscan death assemblages: Differential shell half-lives in Great Barrier Reef sediment

Paleobiology

Volumn 35, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 565-586

  Kosnik, Matthew A ^a,d   Hua, Quan ^b   Kaufman, Darrell S ^c   Wüst, Raphael A ^a  

^a JAMES COOK UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b AUSTRALIAN NUCLEAR SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY ORGANISATION   (Australia)

^c NORTHERN ARIZONA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d DEPARTMENT OF PALEOBIOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEPOSITIONAL ENVIRONMENT; FOSSIL ASSEMBLAGE; LONGEVITY; MOLLUSC; SHALLOW WATER; TAPHONOMY;

AUSTRALIA; CORAL SEA; GREAT BARRIER REEF; PACIFIC OCEAN; QUEENSLAND; RIB REEF;

NATICA; TELLINA;

EID: 77749264615     PISSN: 00948373     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1666/0094-8373-35.4.565     Document Type: Article

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