Correlation of key dinoflagellate events with calcareous nannoplankton and planktonic foraminiferal zones in the Solignano formation (Maastrichtian, late cretaceous), Northern Apennines, Italy

Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology

Volumn 97, Issue 1-2, 1997, Pages 177-196

  Roncaglia, Lucia ^a,b   Corradini, Domenico ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MODENA AND REGGIO EMILIA   (Italy)

^b Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland   (Germany)

Author keywords

Biostratigraphy; Correlation; Dinoflagellates; Maastrichtian; Northern Apennines; Upper Cretaceous

Indexed keywords

BIOSTRAITGRAPHY; BIOSTRATIGRAPHY; CALCAREOUS NANNOFOSSIL; CRETACEOUS; DINOFLAGELLATE; DINOFLAGELLATES; FORAMINIFERA; MAASTRICHTIAN; PALYNOLOGY; PLANKTONIC FORAMINIFERA;

APENNINES; ITALY;

DINOPHYCEAE; FORAMINIFERA; GLAPHYROCYSTA; ODONTOCHITINA; ODONTOCHITINA OPERCULATA; XENASCUS;

EID: 0030799636     PISSN: 00346667     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0034-6667(96)00070-X     Document Type: Article

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