Current and historical perspectives on the completeness of the fossil record of pelycosaurian-grade synapsids

Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology

Volumn 399, Issue , 2014, Pages 114-126

  Brocklehurst, Neil ^a   Fröbisch, Jörg ^a  

^a HUMBOLDT UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

"Pelycosauria"; Completeness; Diversity; Sampling bias; Synapsida

Indexed keywords

BIOSTRATIGRAPHY; CARBONIFEROUS; EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY; FOSSIL RECORD; NEW SPECIES; NOMENCLATURE; PALEOECOLOGY; PERMIAN; PHYLOGENETICS; PHYLOGENY; PRESERVATION; SPECIES DIVERSITY; TAXONOMY; TETRAPOD;

EID: 84896898807     PISSN: 00310182     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.palaeo.2014.02.006     Document Type: Article

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