Lower Cretaceous dinoflagellate cyst and acritarch stratigraphy of the Cismon APTICORE (southern Alps, Italy)

Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology

Volumn 108, Issue 3-4, 2000, Pages 213-266

  Torricelli, S ^a  

^a AGIP SpA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Acritarchs; Biostratigraphy; Dinoflagellate cysts; Italy; Lower Cretaceous; New taxa; Southern Alps

Indexed keywords

ACRITARCH; BIOSTRATIGRAPHY; CRETACEOUS; DINOFLAGELLATE CYST;

ITALY;

BOURKIDINIUM GRANULATUM; KALLOSPHAERIDIUM DOLOMITICUM; NEXOSISPINUM HESPERUS; ODONTOCHITINA OPERCULATA; PHOBEROCYSTA NEOCOMICA; PINOCCHIODINIUM; PROLIXOSPHAERIDIUM PARVISPINUM; RHYNCHODINIOPSIS APTIANA; TANYOSPHAERIDIUM MAGNETICUM;

EID: 0034107549     PISSN: 00346667     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0034-6667(99)00041-X     Document Type: Article

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