The messaoudensis-trifidum acritarch assemblage and correlation of the base of Ordovician Stage 2 (Floian)

Geological Magazine

Volumn 144, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 143-156

  Molyneux, S G ^a   Raevskaya, E ^b,c   Servais, T ^b  

^a BRITISH GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIV LILLE   (France)

^c INSTITUTE OF PRECAMBRIAN GEOLOGY AND GEOCHRONOLOGY   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

Acritarchs; Lower Ordovician; Stratigraphic correlation; Tremadocian Floian boundary

Indexed keywords

STRATIGRAPHY;

ACRITARCHS; EASTERN CORDILLERA; ENGLAND AND WALES; LOWER ORDOVICIAN; STRATIGRAPHIC CORRELATION; TIME SLICE; TREMADOCIAN-FLOIAN BOUNDARY; TWO SECTION;

QUARRIES;

ACRITARCH; BIOZONATION; GRAPTOLITE; ORDOVICIAN; PALEOBIOGEOGRAPHY; STRATIGRAPHIC CORRELATION; TAXONOMY;

EURASIA; EUROPE; MOUNT HUNNEBERG; NORTHERN EUROPE; SCANDINAVIA; SWEDEN; VASTRA GOTALAND;

ACRITARCHA; ARANEOGRAPTUS MURRAYI; AUREOTESTA; CYMATIOGALEA MESSAOUDENSIS; PETEINOSPHAERIDIUM; RHOPALIOPHORA; STELLIFERIDIUM TRIFIDUM; TETRAGRAPTUS APPROXIMATUS;

EID: 33846289599     PISSN: 00167568     EISSN: 14695081     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0016756806002676     Document Type: Article

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