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Size in relation to salinity in fossil and recent euryhaline ostracods

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 May 2009

Dennis Barker
Dennis Barker
Affiliation:
Department of Geology, University of Leicester
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Variation in size of fossil euryhaline ostracods is discussed and compared to size variation in recent forms. The most likely cause of variation in size of euryhaline ostracods is variation in salinity. Similarities are indicated between Fabanella and Cyprideis species.

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Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom , Volume 43 , Issue 3 , November 1963 , pp. 785 - 795
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Copyright © Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom 1963

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