A timeline for terrestrialization: Consequences for the carbon cycle in the Palaeozoic

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 367, Issue 1588, 2012, Pages 519-536

  Kenrick, Paul ^a   Wellman, Charles H ^b   Schneider, Harald ^a   Edgecombe, Gregory D ^a  

^a DEPARTMENT OF LIFE SCIENCES   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Arthropods; Fossil; Palaeozoic; Plants; Rock record; Timetree

Indexed keywords

ARTHROPOD; CALCIUM; CARBON CYCLE; EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY; FACIES; FOSSIL RECORD; MAGNESIUM; PALEOBOTANY; PALEONTOLOGY; PALEOZOIC; PHYLOGENETICS;

ANIMALIA; ARTHROPODA; EMBRYOPHYTA;

EID: 84855661425     PISSN: 09628436     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2011.0271     Document Type: Review

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