Myths and legends in the correlation between the Boreal and Tethyan Realms. Implications on the dating of the Early Toarcian mass extinctions and the Oceanic Anoxic Event

Geobios

Volumn 35, Issue SUPPLEMENT, 2002, Pages 150-164

  Macchioni, Francesco ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Anoxic event; Biostratigraphy; Correlations; Mass extinctions; Pliensbachian Toarcian boundary

Indexed keywords

ANOXIC CONDITIONS; BIOSTRATIGRAPHY; BOREAL; MASS EXTINCTION; PLIENSBACHIAN; TETHYS; TOARCIAN;

AMMONOIDEA; DACTYLIOCERAS; DACTYLIOCERAS SEMICELATUM;

EID: 0036978494     PISSN: 00166995     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0016-6995(02)00056-6     Document Type: Article

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