Cenozoic biostratigraphy of larger foraminifera from the Foz do Amazonas Basin, Brazil

Micropaleontology

Volumn 49, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 253-266

  de Mello e Sousa, Silvia Helena ^a   Fairchild, Thomas R ^a   Tibana, Paulo ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^b STATE UNIVERSITY OF RIO DE JANEIRO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOSTRATIGRAPHY; BIOZONATION; CENOZOIC; FORAMINIFERA; MORPHOLOGY; THIN SECTION;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; FOZ DO AMAZONAS BASIN;

FORAMINIFERA; LEPIDOCYCLINA;

EID: 0842349476     PISSN: 00262803     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2113/49.3.253     Document Type: Article

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