Quantitative approach to diversity and decline in late palaeozoic trilobites

Earth and Life: Global Biodiversity, Extinction Intervals and Biogeographic Perturbations Through Time

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 535-555

  Lerosey Aubril, Rudy ^a   Feist, Raimund ^b  

^a SENCKENBERG RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Germany)

^b INSTITUT DES SCIENCES DE L EVOLUTION   (France)

Author keywords

Decreasing diversity Capitanian to end Permian total extinction; Devonian Permian extinctions; Early Devonian diversity peak; Famennian Tournaisian diversity acceleration; Last diversification Wordian; Mid Devonian Frasnian decrease; Quantitative analysis; Trilobites; Vis an Serpukhovian marked diversity decrease

Indexed keywords

EID: 84994395689     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1007/978-90-481-3428-1_16     Document Type: Chapter

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