Calcareous algae from the Lakadong Formation of the South Shillong Plateau, NE India

Revue de Paleobiologie

Volumn 21, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 717-734

  Misra, Pradeep Kumar ^a   Jauhri, Anil Kumar ^a   Kishore, Shyam ^a   Singh, Sarvesh Kumar ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LUCKNOW   (India)

Author keywords

Calcareous algae; Lakadong Limestone; Rhodophyceae and Chlorophyceae; South Shillong Plateau

Indexed keywords

BIOSTRATIGRAPHY; CALCAREOUS ALGA; MORPHOLOGY; PALEOBOTANY; PALEOECOLOGY; PALEOGENE; TAXONOMY;

INDIA;

ALGAE; CHLOROPHYCEAE; FORAMINIFERA; PEYSSONNELIACEAE; RHODOPHYTA;

EID: 0038404987     PISSN: 02536730     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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