Suboreal/boreal ammonite succession at the Oxfordian/Kimmeridgian boundary in the Flodigarry section (Staffin Bay, Isle of Skye, UK)

Rivista Italiana di Paleontologia e Stratigrafia

Volumn 110, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 273-278

  Matyja, Bronisław A ^a   Page, Kevin N ^b   Wierzbowski, Andrzej ^a   Wright, John K ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WARSAW   (Poland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PLYMOUTH   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Ammonite succession; Biostratigraphical correlation; Boreal zonation; Oxfordian Kimmeridgian boundary; Subboreal zonation

Indexed keywords

AMMONITE; BIOSTRATIGRAPHY; BIOZONATION; JURASSIC; KIMMERIDGIAN; OXFORDIAN;

EURASIA; EUROPE; HIGHLAND; SCOTLAND; SKYE; STAFFIN BAY; UNITED KINGDOM; WESTERN EUROPE;

AMMONOIDEA; AMOEBOCERAS;

EID: 2942701915     PISSN: 00356883     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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