Larval Dispersal and Species Longevity in Lower Tertiary Gastropods
- 24 February 1978
- journal article
- other
- Published by American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in Science
- Vol. 199 (4331), 885-887
- https://doi.org/10.1126/science.199.4331.885
Abstract
Species longevity in Lower Tertiary volutids (Gastropoda) is primarily controlled by a combination of developmental type and environmental tolerance. Larval dispersal may be an important factor in molluskan evolutionary rates.This publication has 5 references indexed in Scilit:
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