Habitat and diversity of the Bear Gulch fish: Life in a 318million year old marine Mississippian bay

Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology

Volumn 342-343, Issue , 2012, Pages 1-16

  Lund, Richard ^a   Greenfest Allen, Emily ^b   Grogan, Eileen D ^a  

^a SAINT JOSEPH S UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Alpha diversity; Bay community; Beta diversity; Chondrichthyes; Mississippian; Osteichthyes; Rarefaction

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; CLADISTICS; ESTIMATION METHOD; FISH; HABITAT TYPE; LIMESTONE; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SPECIES RICHNESS;

MISSISSIPPI EMBAYMENT; UNITED STATES;

ACANTHODES; CHONDRICHTHYES; COELACANTHIFORMES; MYA; OSTEICHTHYES; PISCES; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 84862578050     PISSN: 00310182     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.palaeo.2012.04.016     Document Type: Article

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