Recovery of marine primary producers after the Cretaceous-Tertiary mass extinction: Paleocene calcareous red algae from the Iberian Peninsula

Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology

Volumn 249, Issue 3-4, 2007, Pages 393-411

  Aguirre, Julio ^a   Baceta, Juan I ^b   Braga, Juan C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRANADA   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF THE BASQUE COUNTRY UPV EHU   (Spain)

Author keywords

Calcareous red algae; Corallines; Cretaceous Tertiary recovery; Pyrenean Basin; Spain

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE RADIATION; CALCAREOUS ALGA; CHRONOSTRATIGRAPHY; COMMUNITY RESPONSE; CORAL REEF; CORALLINE ALGA; CRETACEOUS-TERTIARY BOUNDARY; DANIAN; MASS EXTINCTION; RECOLONIZATION; RED ALGA; SPECIES RICHNESS; THANETIAN;

BETIC CORDILLERA; EURASIA; EUROPE; IBERIAN PENINSULA; PYRENEAN BASIN; SOUTHERN EUROPE; SPAIN;

ALGAE; HAPALIDIACEAE; LITHOPHYLLOIDEAE; MELOBESIOIDEAE; PEYSSONNELIACEAE; RHODOPHYTA; SPOROLITHACEAE;

EID: 34248575988     PISSN: 00310182     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.palaeo.2007.02.009     Document Type: Article

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