High-resolution nannofossil biochronology of middle Paleocene to early Eocene at ODP Site 1262: Implications for calcareous nannoplankton evolution

Marine Micropaleontology

Volumn 64, Issue 3-4, 2007, Pages 215-248

  Agnini, Claudia ^a   Fornaciari, Eliana ^a   Raffi, Isabella ^b   Rio, Domenico ^a   Röhl, Ursula ^c   Westerhold, Thomas ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHIETI   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BREMEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Biochronology; Calcareous nannofossils; Early Paleogene; Evolution; ODP

Indexed keywords

BIOCHRONOLOGY; BIOSTRATIGRAPHY; CYCLOSTRATIGRAPHY; DATA SET; ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE; EOCENE; EVOLUTION; NANOFOSSIL; NANOPLANKTON; PALEOCENE;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; WALVIS RIDGE;

DISCOASTER; FASCICULITHUS; RHOMBOASTER;

EID: 34548057197     PISSN: 03778398     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.marmicro.2007.05.003     Document Type: Article

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