Paleoenvironmental change at the Danian-Selandian transition in Tunisia: Foraminifera, organic-walled dinoflagellate cyst and calcareous nannofossil records

Marine Micropaleontology

Volumn 59, Issue 3-4, 2006, Pages 210-229

  Guasti, Elisa ^a   Speijer, Robert P ^b   Brinkhuis, Henk ^c   Smit, Jan ^d   Steurbaut, Etienne ^b,e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BREMEN   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^c UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^d VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^e ROYAL BELGIAN INSTITUTE OF NATURAL SCIENCES   (Belgium)

Author keywords

calcareous nannofossils; Danian Selandian transition; organic walled dinoflagellate cysts; Paleocene; paleoenvironment; planktic foraminifera; stratigraphy; Tunisia

Indexed keywords

DANIAN; FORAMINIFERA; MARINE ENVIRONMENT; NANOFOSSIL; PALEOGENE; PALEONTOLOGY; TETHYS;

AFRICA; ASIA; EGYPT; EURASIA; JORDAN; MIDDLE EAST; NORTH AFRICA; TUNISIA;

ACARININA; APECTODINIUM; CHIASMOLITHUS; DINOPHYCEAE; FORAMINIFERA; IGORINA; LEJEUNECYSTA; MOROZOVELLA; PONTOSPHAERA;

EID: 33646354413     PISSN: 03778398     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.marmicro.2006.02.008     Document Type: Article

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