Testing the fossil record: Sampling proxies and scaling in the British Triassic-Jurassic

Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology

Volumn 404, Issue , 2014, Pages 1-11

  Dunhill, Alexander M ^a,b   Benton, Michael J ^b   Twitchett, Richard J ^c   Newell, Andrew J ^d  

^a University of Bath   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PLYMOUTH   (United Kingdom)

^d BRITISH GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Fossil record; Jurassic; Palaeodiversity; Proxy; Sampling; Triassic

Indexed keywords

DATA ACQUISITION; DATING METHOD; ERROR ANALYSIS; FOSSIL RECORD; MARINE ECOSYSTEM; PALEOBIOLOGY; SAMPLING; TIME SERIES;

UNITED KINGDOM;

EID: 84923304017     PISSN: 00310182     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.palaeo.2014.03.026     Document Type: Article

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