The acritarch genus Veryhachium Deunff 1954: Taxonomic evaluation and first appearance

Palynology

Volumn 31, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 191-203

  Servais, Thomas ^a   Vecoli, Marco ^a   Li, Jun ^b   Molyneux, Stewart G ^c   Raevskaya, Elena G ^d   Rubinstein, Claudia V ^e  

^a Univ Lille   (France)

^b NANJING INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND PALAEONTOLOGY   (China)

^c BRITISH GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United Kingdom)

^d INSTITUTE OF PRECAMBRIAN GEOLOGY AND GEOCHRONOLOGY   (Russian Federation)

^e Conicet ^*  (Argentina)

Author keywords

Acritarchs; Biostratigraphy; Ordovician; Organic walled microphytoplankton; Taxonomy; Tremadocian

Indexed keywords

EID: 38349141646     PISSN: 01916122     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01916122.2007.9989642     Document Type: Article

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