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Macroevolutionary trends in silicoflagellate skeletal morphology: the costs and benefits of silicifi...

Macroevolutionary trends in silicoflagellate skeletal morphology: the costs and benefits of silicifi...

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Macroevolutionary trends in silicoflagellate skeletal morphology: the costs and benefits of silicification

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Macroevolutionary trends in silicoflagellate skeletal morphology: the costs and benefits of silicification

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New York, USA: The Paleontological Society

Journal title

Paleobiology, 2012-06, Vol.38 (3), p.391-402

Language

English

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New York, USA: The Paleontological Society

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Contents

The silicoflagellates are a class of enigmatic chrysophytes characterized by netlike skeletons composed of opaline silica. Other major groups of siliceous plankton—the diatoms and radiolarians—exhibit evidence of decreasing size or silicification over the Cenozoic. We investigated trends in the silicoflagellate fossil record by constructing a speci...

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Macroevolutionary trends in silicoflagellate skeletal morphology: the costs and benefits of silicification

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TN_cdi_proquest_miscellaneous_1028029486

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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/TN_cdi_proquest_miscellaneous_1028029486

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ISSN

0094-8373

E-ISSN

1938-5331

DOI

10.1666/11022.1

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