Bivalves and evolutionary resilience: Old skills and new strategies to recover from the P/T and T/J extinction events

Historical Biology

Volumn 23, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 411-429

  Ros, Sonia ^a,b   Echevarría, Javier ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VALENCIA   (Spain)

^b La Plata Museum   (Argentina)

^c Facultad de Ciencias Naturales e Instituto M Lillo   (Argentina)

Author keywords

bivalvia; Early Jurassic; mass extinction; recovery; taxonomic diversity; Triassic

Indexed keywords

BIVALVE; EVOLUTION; JURASSIC; MASS EXTINCTION; MORPHOLOGY; SPECIES DIVERSITY; TAXONOMY; TRIASSIC;

ANISIA; BIVALVIA; MOLLUSCA;

EID: 81555199303     PISSN: 08912963     EISSN: 10292381     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/08912963.2011.578744     Document Type: Article

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