Sharks that pass in the night: Using Geographical Information Systems to investigate competition in the Cretaceous Western Interior Seaway

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 278, Issue 1706, 2011, Pages 681-689

  Myers, Corinne E ^a   Lieberman, Bruce S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS   (United States)

Author keywords

Competitive replacement; GIS; Marine vertebrates; Western interior seaway

Indexed keywords

CRETACEOUS; FOSSIL RECORD; GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION; GIS; PALEOCEANOGRAPHY; PALEONTOLOGY; RANGE SIZE; SHARK;

WESTERN INTERIOR;

CHONDRICHTHYES; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 79951780185     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2010.1617     Document Type: Article

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