Did the amalgamation of continents drive the end Ordovician mass extinctions?

Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology

Volumn 311, Issue 1-2, 2011, Pages 48-62

  Rasmussen, Christian M Ø ^a   Harper, David A T ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^b DURHAM UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Diversity; Brachiopods; Continental amalgamation; Habitat loss; Mass extinction; Migration origination rates; Ordovician; Silurian

Indexed keywords

BRACHIOPOD; CONTINENTAL COLLISION; DATABASE; HABITAT LOSS; MASS EXTINCTION; MIGRATION ROUTE; ORDOVICIAN; PALEOECOLOGY; PALEONTOLOGY; PLATE TECTONICS; PLEISTOCENE; SILURIAN; SPECIES DIVERSITY; TECTONIC RECONSTRUCTION; TRACE ELEMENT;

BRACHIOPODA;

EID: 80055110782     PISSN: 00310182     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.palaeo.2011.07.029     Document Type: Article

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