Dissecting the global diversity trajectory of an enigmatic group: The paleogeographic history of tentaculitoids

Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology

Volumn 312, Issue 1-2, 2011, Pages 54-65

  Wittmer, Jacalyn M ^a   Miller, Arnold I ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI   (United States)

Author keywords

Diversity; Middle Paleozoic; Paleogeography; Problematica; Tentaculitoids

Indexed keywords

BALTICA; BIBLIOGRAPHY; DATABASE; DEVONIAN; DISSECTION; FOSSIL ASSEMBLAGE; MOLLUSC; ORDOVICIAN; PALEOECOLOGY; PALEOGEOGRAPHY; PALEOZOIC; SPECIES DIVERSITY; TAXONOMY;

CRICOCONARIDA; DACRYOCONARIDA; TENTACULITIDA;

EID: 82255175632     PISSN: 00310182     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.palaeo.2011.09.009     Document Type: Article

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