Sequence stratigraphy of the Punta Ballena Member of the Jama Formation (Early Pleistocene, Ecuador): Insights from integrated sedimentologic, taphonomic and paleoecologic analysis of molluscan shell concentrations

Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology

Volumn 216, Issue 1-2, 2005, Pages 1-25

  Cantalamessa, Gino ^a   Di Celma, Claudio ^a   Ragaini, Luca ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMERINO   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PISA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Early Pleistocene; Mollusk paleoecology; North central Ecuador; Sequence stratigraphy; Shell concentrations; Taphonomy

Indexed keywords

PALEOECOLOGY; PLEISTOCENE; SEDIMENTOLOGY; SEQUENCE STRATIGRAPHY; TAPHONOMY;

ECUADOR; ESMERALDAS; SOUTH AMERICA; WESTERN HEMISPHERE; WORLD;

BIVALVIA; MOLLUSCA; RAETA UNDULATA;

EID: 11144272559     PISSN: 00310182     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.palaeo.2004.09.012     Document Type: Article

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