Sequential analysis of a new locality of fossil fishes from the diatomitic marine Messinian : Masseria il Salto near Caltagirona (Catania Province, Sicily);Analyse séquentielle d'un nouveau gisement de poissons fossiles du Messinien marin diatomitique : Masseria il Salto près de Caltagirone (Province de Catane, Sicile)

Geologie Mediterraneenne

Volumn 23, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 117-147

  Gaudant, J ^a,b   Caulet, J P ^b,c   Di Geronimo, I ^d   Di Stefano, A ^d   Fourtanier, E ^e   Romeo, M ^d   Venec Peyre, M T ^b,c  

^a CNRS ^*  (France)

^b CNRS   (France)

^c MUSÉUM NATIONAL D'HISTOIRE NATURELLE   (France)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CATANIA   (Italy)

^e CALIFORNIA ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (United States)

Author keywords

Calcareous nannofossils; Diatoms; Fishes; Foraminifera; Italy; Marine environment; Messinian; Palaeoecology; Radiolaria

Indexed keywords

BACILLARIOPHYTA; FORAMINIFERA; MYCTOPHIDAE; PISCES;

FISH; MESSINIAN; MIOCENE; MYCTOPHID; UPWELLING;

ITALY, SICILY, CATANIA, MASSERIA IL SALTO;

EID: 0030326615     PISSN: 03972844     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3406/geolm.1996.1586     Document Type: Article

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