Quantitative study of a hippuritid rudist lithosome in a Santonian carbonate platform in the southern Central Pyrenees

Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology

Volumn 200, Issue 1-4, 2003, Pages 31-41

  Vilardell, Oriol ^a   Gili, Eulàlia ^a  

^a UNIVERSITAT AUTÒNOMA DE BARCELONA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Carbonate platform; Gregariousness; Pyrenees; Quantitative analysis; Rudist bivalves; Upper Cretaceous

Indexed keywords

CARBONATE PLATFORM; CRETACEOUS; FOSSIL ASSEMBLAGE; PALEONTOLOGY; SANTONIAN;

EUROPE; PYRENEES;

ANIMALIA; BIVALVIA;

EID: 0242654979     PISSN: 00310182     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0031-0182(03)00443-7     Document Type: Conference Paper

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