Echinoid assemblages as a tool for palaeoenvironmental reconstruction - An example from the Early Miocene of Egypt

Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology

Volumn 201, Issue 1-2, 2003, Pages 157-177

  Kroh, Andreas ^a   Nebelsick, James H ^b  

^a Inst fur Geol und Palaontologie   (Austria)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Assemblages; Burdigalian; Echinoids; Egypt; Palaeoecology; Palaeoenvironment

Indexed keywords

BURDIGALIAN; ECHINODERM; MIOCENE; PALEOECOLOGY; PALEOENVIRONMENT; RECONSTRUCTION;

AFRICA; EGYPT; NORTH AFRICA;

CIDAROIDA; CLYPEASTER; CLYPEASTER MARTINI; CLYPEASTEROIDA; ECHINACEA; ECHINOIDA; ECHINOIDEA; PARASCUTELLA; PHYLLACANTHUS; SPATANGOIDA;

EID: 0344153417     PISSN: 00310182     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0031-0182(03)00610-2     Document Type: Article

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