Integrated Jurassic biostratigraphy: A closer look at nannofossil and ammonite evidences from the Indian subcontinent

Current Science

Volumn 95, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 326-331

  Jain, Sreepat ^a  

^a DEPARTMENT OF PALEOBIOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Ammonites; Bathonian callovian boundary; Indian subcontinent; Nannofossils

Indexed keywords

AMMONOIDEA;

EID: 49449114365     PISSN: 00113891     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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