Larger foraminifera from the upper Oligocene of the Venetian area, north-east Italy

Palaeontology

Volumn 50, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 845-868

  Bassi, Davide ^a   Hottinger, Lukas ^b   Nebelsick, James H ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FERRARA   (Italy)

^b NATURHISTORISCHES MUSEUM BASEL   (Switzerland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Archaiasinae; Biostratigraphy; Italy; Larger foraminifera; Oligocene; Palaeoecology; Systematics

Indexed keywords

BENTHIC FORAMINIFERA; BIODIVERSITY; BIOSTRATIGRAPHY; OLIGOCENE; PALEOBIOGEOGRAPHY; PALEOECOLOGY; PALEOENVIRONMENT; TAXONOMY;

EURASIA; EUROPE; ITALY; SOUTHERN EUROPE;

AMPHISTEGINA; ARCHAIAS; ARCHAIASINAE; FORAMINIFERA; MIOGYPSINIDAE; NEOROTALIA; NUMMULITES; OPERCULINA (FORAMINIFERIDA);

EID: 34547513352     PISSN: 00310239     EISSN: 14754983     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1475-4983.2007.00677.x     Document Type: Article

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