Paleoecology of a Pliocene coral reef in Cyprus: Recovery of a marine community from the Messinian Salinity Crisis

Neues Jahrbuch fur Geologie und Palaontologie - Abhandlungen

Volumn 213, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 103-118

  Dornbos, Stephen Q ^a,b   Wilson, Mark A ^a  

^a 931 College Mall   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CORAL REEF; EPIFAUNA; FORAMINIFERA; MARINE ECOSYSTEM; MESSINIAN; MOLLUSC; PALEOECOLOGY; PLIOCENE;

CYPRUS;

ANTHOZOA; FORAMINIFERA; MOLLUSCA;

EID: 0004632088     PISSN: 00777749     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1127/njgpa/213/1999/103     Document Type: Article

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