Dinoflagellate biostratigraphy of Piripauan-Haumurian (Upper Cretaceous) sections from northeast South Island, New Zealand

Cretaceous Research

Volumn 20, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 271-314

  Roncaglia, L ^a   Field, B D ^b   Raine, J I ^b   Schioler P ^c   Wilson, G J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MODENA AND REGGIO EMILIA   (Italy)

^b GNS SCIENCE   (New Zealand)

^c GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF DENMARK AND GREENLAND   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Biost ratigraphy; Campanian; Coniacian; Dinoflagellates; Haumurian; Maastrichtian; New Zealand; Palaeoenvironment; Palynomorphs; Piripauan; Santonian; Upper Cretaceous; Zonation

Indexed keywords

BIOSTRATIGRAPHY; CRETACEOUS; DINOFLAGELLATE; PALEOENVIRONMENT; PALYNOLOGY;

NEW ZEALAND; SOUTH ISLAND;

ALTERBIDINIUM; BATIACASPHAERA; CONIACIAN; DINOPHYCEAE; MANUMIELLA; ODONTOCHITINA; PORIFERA; TRITHYRODINIUM;

EID: 0032847312     PISSN: 01956671     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/cres.1999.0153     Document Type: Article

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