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Gastropod Paleoecology

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  19 July 2017

Alan J. Kohn
Alan J. Kohn*
Affiliation:
Department of Zoology, University of Washington, Seattle 98195
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Paleoecology concerns the life processes and patterns of environmental relationships of groups of ancient organisms during their lifetimes. Two assumptions are fundamental to paleoecological theory: observed patterns in populations, associations, communities and ecosystems represented in the fossil record were imposed by contemporaneous physical and biological environmental factors and their interactions, and at least some past environmental conditions can be discerned from fossil assemblages and their rock matrices.

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Research Article
Information
Series in Geology, Notes for Short Course , Volume 13: Mollusks , 1985 , pp. 174 - 189
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Copyright © 1985 University of Tennessee, Knoxville 

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