Diversity and climate change in the middle-late Wasatchian (early Eocene) Willwood Formation, central Bighorn Basin, Wyoming

Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology

Volumn 369, Issue , 2013, Pages 67-78

  Chew, Amy E ^a   Oheim, Kathryn B ^b  

^a WESTERN UNIVERSITY OF HEALTH SCIENCES   (United States)

^b Suffolk County Department of Planning   (United States)

Author keywords

Climate change; Diversity; Eocene; Evenness; Rarefaction; Wyoming

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE VARIATION; DOMINANCE; EOCENE; GIS; HYPSITHERMAL; MAMMAL; PALEOBIOLOGY; PALEOCLIMATE; PALEOECOLOGY; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SPECIES RICHNESS;

BIGHORN BASIN; UNITED STATES;

MAMMALIA;

EID: 84872034259     PISSN: 00310182     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.palaeo.2012.10.004     Document Type: Article

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