Confidence intervals for the duration of a mass extinction

Paleobiology

Volumn 38, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 265-277

  Wang, Steve C ^a   Zimmerman, Aaron E ^b   McVeigh, Brendan S ^c   Everson, Philip J ^a   Wong, Heidi ^d  

^a SWARTHMORE COLLEGE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^c THE BRATTLE GROUP   (United States)

^d Fairfax and Sammons Architects   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; AMMONITE; BIOSTRATIGRAPHY; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CRETACEOUS; FOSSIL RECORD; MASS EXTINCTION; OSTRACOD; PERMIAN; TAXONOMY;

ANTARCTICA; CHINA; MEISHAN; SEYMOUR ISLAND; WEST ANTARCTICA; ZHEJIANG;

OSTRACODA;

EID: 84859560016     PISSN: 00948373     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1666/11016.1     Document Type: Article

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