Terminal Cambrian and lowest Ordovician succession of Mexican West Gondwana: Biotas and sequence stratigraphy of the Tiñu Formation

Geological Magazine

Volumn 144, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 909-936

  Landing, Ed ^a   Westrop, Stephen R ^b   Keppie, John D ^c  

^a NEW YORK STATE MUSEUM   (United States)

^b Oklahoma Museum of Natural History   (United States)

^c Ciudad Universitaria   (Mexico)

Author keywords

Cambrian; Conodonts; Gondwana; Mexico; Ordovician; Sequence stratigraphy

Indexed keywords

DEPOSITION; LIME; LIMESTONE; TROPICS;

CAMBRIANS; CONODONTS; GONDWANA; ME-XICO; ORDOVICIAN; SEQUENCE STRATIGRAPHY;

STRATIGRAPHY;

BIOSTRATIGRAPHY; BIOTA; CAMBRIAN; CONODONT; DEPOSITIONAL SEQUENCE; FAUNA; LITHOSTRATIGRAPHY; ORDOVICIAN; PROTEROZOIC; SANDSTONE; SEQUENCE STRATIGRAPHY; TRILOBITE;

MEXICO [NORTH AMERICA]; NORTH AMERICA;

CORDYLODUS; CORNUODUS; OLENIDAE; TRILOBITOMORPHA;

EID: 35548949499     PISSN: 00167568     EISSN: 14695081     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0016756807003585     Document Type: Article

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