Devonian - Early Carboniferous miospore biostratigraphy of the Amazon Basin, Northern Brazil

Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology

Volumn 124, Issue 3-4, 2003, Pages 131-202

  Melo, José Henrique G ^a   Loboziak, Stanislas ^b  

^a PETROBRAS   (Brazil)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Amazon Basin; Biozonation; Brazil; Carboniferous; Devonian; Miospores

Indexed keywords

BIOSTRATIGRAPHY; BIOZONATION; CARBONIFEROUS; DEVONIAN; MIOSPORE;

AMAZON BASIN; BRAZIL;

ENTOVALVA;

EID: 0042164811     PISSN: 00346667     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0034-6667(02)00184-7     Document Type: Article

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