The living, the dead, and the expected dead: Variation in life span yields little bias of proportional abundances in bivalve death assemblages

Paleobiology

Volumn 36, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 615-640

  Kidwell, Susan M ^a   Rothfus, Thomas A ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^b C/o Twin Air   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; BIVALVE; BODY SIZE; DATA SET; FOSSIL ASSEMBLAGE; FOSSIL RECORD; LIFE CYCLE; MARINE ECOSYSTEM; MORTALITY; SPECIES OCCURRENCE; TAPHONOMY;

BIVALVIA;

EID: 77956576059     PISSN: 00948373     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1666/09004.1     Document Type: Article

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