Palaeoecology and palaeobiogeography of the Middle Jurassic ostracods of southern Tunisia

Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology

Volumn 131, Issue 1-2, 1997, Pages 65-111

  Mette, Wolfgang ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Middle Jurassic; Ostracods; Paleobiogeography; Paleosalinity; Tethys; Tunisia

Indexed keywords

OSTRACODA;

BIOSTRATIGRAPHY; BIOSTRATISGRAHY; JURASSIC; OSTRACOD; PALAEOBIOGEOGRAPHY; PALAEOECOLOGY; PALAEOZOOGEOGRAPHY; TETHYS;

TUNISIA;

EID: 0030619421     PISSN: 00310182     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0031-0182(97)83384-6     Document Type: Article

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