New upper Givetian to basal Frasnian conodont faunas from the Tafilalt (Anti-Atlas, Southern Morocco)

Geological Quarterly

Volumn 51, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 345-374

  Aboussalam, Zhor Sarah ^a   Becker, Ralph Thomas ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MÜNSTER   (Germany)

Author keywords

Conodont biostratigraphy; Conodont taxonomy; Frasnes event; Frasnian; Givetian; Morocco

Indexed keywords

BIOSTRATIGRAPHY; CONODONT; FAUNA; GIVETIAN; LITHOSTRATIGRAPHY; MORPHOLOGY; MORPHOTYPE; NEW RECORD; NEW SPECIES; NOMENCLATURE; TAXONOMY;

AFRICA; MEKNES-TAFILALET; MOROCCO; NORTH AFRICA; TAFILALT;

ICRIODUS; MESOTAXIS; OZARKODINA; POLYGNATHUS; PRISTINA; SAGITTA; TORTODUS;

EID: 38949141895     PISSN: 16417291     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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