Climate-mediated diversification of turtles in the Cretaceous

Nature Communications

Volumn 6, Issue , 2015, Pages

  Nicholson, David B ^a   Holroyd, Patricia A ^b   Benson, Roger B J ^c   Barrett, Paul M ^a  

^a DEPARTMENT OF LIFE SCIENCES   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; CRETACEOUS; ECOLOGICAL MODELING; ECTOTHERMY; FOSSIL RECORD; GEOGRAPHICAL REGION; PALEOENVIRONMENT; PALEOLATITUDE; SPECIES DIVERSITY; TURTLE;

ARTICLE; CENOMANIAN; CLIMATE; CRETACEOUS; LATITUDE; LOWER CRETACEOUS; MESOZOIC; NONHUMAN; NORTH AMERICA; TURTLE; UPPER CRETACEOUS; UPPER TRIASSIC; ANIMAL; ASIA; BIODIVERSITY; CLIMATE CHANGE; EUROPE; EVOLUTION; FOSSIL;

ASIA; EUROPE; NORTH AMERICA;

CHELONIIDAE; TESTUDINES;

ANIMALS; ASIA; BIODIVERSITY; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; CLIMATE CHANGE; EUROPE; FOSSILS; NORTH AMERICA; TURTLES;

EID: 84938545033     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms8848     Document Type: Article

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