Saurichthys and other fossil fishes from the late Smithian (Early Triassic) of Bear Lake County (Idaho, USA), with a discussion of saurichthyid palaeogeography and evolution

Bulletin of Geosciences

Volumn 87, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 543-570

  Romano, Carlo ^a   Kogan, Ilja ^b   Jenks, Jim ^c   Jerjen, Iwan ^d   Brinkmann, Winand ^a  

^a PALÄONTOLOGISCHES INSTITUT UND MUSEUM   (Switzerland)

^b TU BERGAKADEMIE FREIBERG   (Germany)

^c Eidgenössische Materialprüfungs und Forschungsanstalt ^*  (United States)

^d SWISS FEDERAL LABORATORIES FOR MATERIALS SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Biodiversity; Biotic recovery; Coelacanth scale; Cosmopolitanism; Extinction; Morphological trends; Osteichthyes; Palaeobiogeography; Saurichthyidae

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE; EVOLUTION; FISH; FOOD WEB; FOSSIL ASSEMBLAGE; FOSSIL RECORD; JURASSIC; MASS EXTINCTION; MESOZOIC; MORPHOLOGY; PALEOECOLOGY; PALEOENVIRONMENT; PALEOGEOGRAPHY; SPECIES DIVERSITY;

BEAR LAKE COUNTY; IDAHO; UNITED STATES;

ACTINOPTERYGII; COELACANTHIDAE; COELACANTHIMORPHA; OSTEICHTHYES; PISCES; SAURICHTHYS;

EID: 84868530097     PISSN: 12141119     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3140/bull.geosci.1337     Document Type: Review

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