Mammalian community response to the latest Paleocene thermal maximum: An isotaphonomic study in the northern Bighorn Basin, Wyoming

Geology

Volumn 26, Issue 11, 1998, Pages 1011-1014

  Clyde, William C ^a   Gingerich, Philip D ^b  

^a University of New Hampshire   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOMETRY; STRATIGRAPHY;

CLIMATIC CHANGES; COMMUNITY EVOLUTION; COMMUNITY ORGANIZATIONS; COMMUNITY RESPONSE; COMMUNITY STRUCTURES; ELEVATED TEMPERATURE; SURFACE COLLECTION; TROPHIC STRUCTURE;

MAMMALS;

COMMUNITY RESPONSE; EVOLUTION; PALEOCENE; PALEOCLIMATE; TAPHONOMY;

BIGHORN BASIN; UNITED STATES; WYOMING;

MAMMALIA;

EID: 84879884468     PISSN: 00917613     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/0091-7613(1998)026<1011:MCRTTL>2.3.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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