The Miocene/Pliocene boundary and the Early Pliocene micropalaeontological record: New data from the Tertiary Piedmont Basin (Moncucco quarry, Torino Hill, Northwestern Italy)

Bollettino della Societa Paleontologica Italiana

Volumn 47, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 87-103

  Trenkwalder, Stefania ^a   Violanti, Donata ^b   D'Atri, Anna ^b   Lozar, Francesca ^b   Dela Pierre, Francesco ^b   Irace, Andrea ^a  

^a CNR   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TURIN   (Italy)

Author keywords

Calcareous nannofossils; Foraminifers; Miocene Pliocene boundary; Ostracods; Tertiary Piedmont Basin

Indexed keywords

ARENITE; BIOSTRATIGRAPHY; BIOZONATION; BRACKISH WATER; BURROW; CALCAREOUS ALGA; CHAOTIC DYNAMICS; EVAPORITE; FACIES; FLOODING; FORAMINIFERA; MARINE SEDIMENT; MICROPALEONTOLOGY; MIOCENE; NANOFOSSIL; ORGANIC MATTER; OSTRACOD; PALEOECOLOGY; PLIOCENE; TAXONOMY; WATER DEPTH;

APENNINES; EURASIA; EUROPE; ITALY; PIEDMONT [ITALY]; PIEDMONT BASIN; SOUTHERN EUROPE; TORINO [PIEDMONT]; VENA DEL GESSO;

AGRENOCYTHERE PLIOCENICA; FORAMINIFERA; LOXOCORNICULINA DJAFAROVI; NEOGLOBOQUADRINA ACOSTAENSIS; OSTRACODA; PARLATORIA ZIZIPHI; TRIQUETRORHABDULUS RUGOSUS; ZANCLEA;

EID: 52249103036     PISSN: 03757633     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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