Terminal Cretaceous warming event in the mid-latitude South Atlantic Ocean: Evidence from poleward migration of Contusotruncana contusa (planktonic foraminifera) morphotypes

Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology

Volumn 138, Issue 1-4, 1998, Pages 1-15

  Kucera, Michal ^a   Malmgren, Björn A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GOTHENBURG   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Biogeography; Cretaceous; Morphology; Paleoceanography; Planktonic foraminifera; South Atlantic

Indexed keywords

CONTUSOTRUNCANA; CRETACEOUS; PALAEOBIOGEOGAPHY; PALAEOBIOGEOGRAPHY; PALAEOCEANOGRAPHY; PLANKTONIC FORAMINIFERA;

ATLANTIC;

CONTUSOTRUNCANA; CONTUSOTRUNCANA CONTUSA; FORAMINIFERA;

EID: 0032054806     PISSN: 00310182     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0031-0182(97)00124-7     Document Type: Article

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