Ecological effects of the Paleozoic-Modern faunal transition: Comparing predation on Paleozoic brachiopods and molluscs

Geology

Volumn 41, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 275-278

  Leighton, Lindsey R ^a   Webb, Amelinda E ^b   Sawyer, Jennifer A ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^b YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ECOLOGICAL EFFECT; ECOLOGICAL PROCESS; LATE PALEOZOIC; MARINE ENVIRONMENT; PALEOZOIC; PALEOZOIC BRACHIOPODS;

ANIMALS; CRUSHING; ECOLOGY; NUTRITION; OFFSHORE OIL WELLS;

GEOCHRONOLOGY;

BENTHOS; BIVALVE; BRACHIOPOD; DIET; FAUNA; GASTROPOD; PALEOECOLOGY; PALEOENVIRONMENT; PALEOZOIC; PENNSYLVANIAN; PREDATOR-PREY INTERACTION;

TEXAS; UNITED STATES;

BIVALVIA; BRACHIOPODA; GASTROPODA; MOLLUSCA;

EID: 84873452004     PISSN: 00917613     EISSN: 19432682     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/G33750.1     Document Type: Article

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