Palaeoenvironmental interpretation of microphytoplankton diversity trends in the Cambrian-Ordovician of the northern Sahara Platform

Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology

Volumn 160, Issue 3-4, 2000, Pages 329-346

  Vecoli, Marco ^a  

^a MARTIN LUTHER UNIVERSITY HALLE WITTENBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Acritarchs; Cambrian Ordovician; North Africa; Palaeoenvironment; Prasinophytes

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; BIOSTRATIGRAPHY; CAMBRIAN; ORDOVICIAN; PALEOENVIRONMENT; PHYTOPLANKTON;

AFRICA;

ACANTHODIACRODIUM; ACRITARCHA; PRASINOPHYCEAE;

EID: 0034661740     PISSN: 00310182     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0031-0182(00)00080-8     Document Type: Article

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