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Ecological patterns in time and space

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  08 February 2016

William A. DiMichele
William A. DiMichele*
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Department of Paleobiology, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC 20560
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Matters of the Record
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Paleobiology , Volume 20 , Issue 2 , Spring 1994 , pp. 89 - 92
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