Benthic foraminiferal ecomarker species of the terminal Cretaceous (late Maastrichtian) deep-sea Tethys

Marine Micropaleontology

Volumn 31, Issue 3-4, 1997, Pages 135-155

  Widmark, Joen G V ^b   Speijer, Robert P ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BREMEN   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GOTHENBURG   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Benthic foraminifera; Food fluxes; Late Cretaceous; Maastrichtian; Oxygenation; Pale ocirculation; Paleobathymetry; Paleoecology; Paleoenvironment; Paleolatitude; Trophic level

Indexed keywords

BENTHIC ASSEMBLAGES; BENTHIC FAUNA; CRETACEOUS; ECOLOGICAL PREFERENCE; ECOMARKER; FORAMINIFERA; MAASTRICHTIAN; PALAEOECOLOGY; PALAEOENVIRONMENT; PALAEOENVIRONMENTS; TETHYS;

EOUVIGERINA; EOUVIGERINA SUBSCULPTURA; FORAMINIFERA; GAVELINELLA; GAVELINELLA BECCARIIFORMIS; GAVELINELLA PERTUSA; NUTTALLIDES; NUTTALLIDES TRUEMPYI; SITELLA; SITELLA PLANA; SLITERIA; SLITERIA VARSOVIENSIS;

EID: 0030882124     PISSN: 03778398     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0377-8398(97)00008-X     Document Type: Article

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