The Eocene/Oligocene boundary and the psychrospheric event in the Tethys as recorded by deep-sea ostracods from the Massignano Global Boundary Stratotype Section and Point, Central Italy

Marine Micropaleontology

Volumn 48, Issue 1-2, 2003, Pages 91-106

  Dall'Antonia, Barbara ^a   Bossio, Alessandro ^a   Guernet, Claude ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PISA   (Italy)

^b SORBONNE UNIVERSITÉ   (France)

Author keywords

Eocene Oligocene boundary GSSP; Ostracoda; Palaeoecology; Tethys (Central Italy)

Indexed keywords

DEEP WATER; EOCENE-OLIGOCENE BOUNDARY; OSTRACODE; PALEOECOLOGY; PALEOENVIRONMENT; TETHYS;

ITALY;

AGRENOCYTHERE; FORAMINIFERA; LEGITIMOCYTHERE; LEGITIMOCYTHERE PRESEQUENTA; OSTRACODA;

EID: 0037407503     PISSN: 03778398     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0377-8398(02)00163-9     Document Type: Article

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