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Do the Available Data Permit Clarifcation of the Possible Dependence of Palaeozoic Brachiopod Generic Diversity Dynamics on Global Sea-Level Changes? A Viewpoint Cover

Do the Available Data Permit Clarifcation of the Possible Dependence of Palaeozoic Brachiopod Generic Diversity Dynamics on Global Sea-Level Changes? A Viewpoint

Geologos
Volume 20 (2014): Issue 3 (September 2014)
By: Dmitry A. Ruban  
Open Access
|Oct 2014

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/logos-2014-0016 | Journal eISSN: 2080-6574 | Journal ISSN: 1426-8981
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Language: English
Page range: 215 - 221
Submitted on: Jan 9, 2014
Accepted on: Mar 19, 2014
Published on: Oct 23, 2014
Published by: Adam Mickiewicz University
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Publication frequency: 3 issues per year
Keywords:
brachiopods,
generic diversity,
sea-level changes,
Silurian,
Devonian
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