Quantifying historical trends in the completeness of the fossil record and the contributing factors: An example using Aves

Paleobiology

Volumn 38, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 112-125

  Ksepka, Daniel T ^a,b   Boyd, Clint A ^c  

^a NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NORTH CAROLINA MUSEUM OF NATURAL SCIENCES   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AVIFAUNA; BIOSTRATIGRAPHY; FOSSIL RECORD; PALEONTOLOGY; PHYLOGENY; SOFTWARE; TREND ANALYSIS;

AVES;

EID: 84855473785     PISSN: 00948373     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1666/10059.1     Document Type: Review

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