Mare versus Largo-mare: Marine fishes and the Mediterranean environment at the end of the Messinian Salinity Crisis

Journal of the Geological Society

Volumn 163, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 75-80

  Carnevale, G ^a   Landini, W ^b   Sarti, G ^b  

^a CNR   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PISA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FISH; MESSINIAN; PALEOENVIRONMENT; SALINITY;

MEDITERRANEAN SEA;

BYTHITIDAE; MOLLUSCA; MYCTOPHIDAE; OSTRACODA; PISCES;

EID: 29244462338     PISSN: 00167649     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1144/0016-764904-158     Document Type: Article

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