Ecological signature of the end-Triassic biotic crisis: What do bivalves have to say?

Historical Biology

Volumn 24, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 489-503

  Ros, Sonia ^a,b   Echevarría, Javier ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VALENCIA   (Spain)

^b La Plata Museum   (Argentina)

^c Facultad de Ciencias Naturales e Instituto M Lillo   (Argentina)

Author keywords

autoecology; Bivalvia; CAMP; end Triassic extinction; selectivity; shell mineralogy

Indexed keywords

AUTECOLOGY; BIOTIC FACTOR; BIVALVE; ENVIRONMENTAL STRESS; MASS EXTINCTION; PALEOECOLOGY; SINEMURIAN; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SURVIVAL; TRIASSIC;

BIVALVIA; CREEDIIDAE;

EID: 84866444726     PISSN: 08912963     EISSN: 10292381     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/08912963.2011.625568     Document Type: Article

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