Rudist decline in the Maastrichtian Cardenas Formation (East-central Mexico)

Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology

Volumn 251, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 210-221

  Schafhauser, Armin ^a   Götz, Stefan ^b   Stinnesbeck, Wolfgang ^b  

^a Neftex Petroleum Consultants Ltd   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KARLSRUHE   (Germany)

Author keywords

Cardenas formation; Extinction; Maastrichtian; Mexico; Rudist; Sequence stratigraphy

Indexed keywords

AMMONITE; BIVALVE; DEPOSITIONAL SEQUENCE; EXTINCTION; MAASTRICHTIAN; POPULATION DECLINE; SEQUENCE STRATIGRAPHY;

MEXICO [NORTH AMERICA]; NORTH AMERICA;

FORAMINIFERA; GANSSERINA GANSSERI; GLOBOTRUNCANA; GLOBOTRUNCANELLA; PACHYDISCUS NEUBERGICUS; SPHENODISCUS PLEURISEPTA;

EID: 34447105796     PISSN: 00310182     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.palaeo.2007.03.047     Document Type: Article

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