Lacertilian faunal change across the Paleocene-Eocene boundary in Europe

Special Paper of the Geological Society of America

Volumn 369, Issue , 2003, Pages 441-453

  Augé, Marc ^a  

^a MUSÉUM NATIONAL D'HISTOIRE NATURELLE   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EARLY EOCENE; FAUNAL CHANGE; FAUNAL TURNOVER; HIGH LATITUDES; PALEOCENE; PALEOCENE-EOCENE BOUNDARIES; SIZE CLASS;

FAUNA; FOSSIL RECORD; NEW TAXON; PALEOCENE-EOCENE BOUNDARY; SPECIES RICHNESS; TAXONOMY; TYPE SPECIMEN;

EUROPE;

EID: 84871431006     PISSN: 00721077     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1130/0-8137-2369-8.441     Document Type: Article

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