Stratigraphic significance of acritarchs in Cambro-Ordovician boundary strata, Hassi-Rmel area, Algerian Sahara

Bollettino della Societa Paleontologica Italiana

Volumn 35, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 3-58

  Vecoli, Marco ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PISA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

Acritarchs; Algerian Sahara; Biostratigraphy; Cambro Ordovician boundary; Systematics

Indexed keywords

ACRITARCH; BIOSTRATIGRAPHY; CAMBRIAN/ORDOVICIAN BOUNDARY; PALYNOLOGY; SYSTEMATICS;

ALGERIA, SAHARA, HASSI-RMEL;

EID: 0030417183     PISSN: 03757633     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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