Catastrophic mass extinction and assemblage evolution in planktic foraminifera across the Cretaceous/Paleogene (K/Pg) boundary at Bidart (SW France)

Marine Micropaleontology

Volumn 72, Issue 3-4, 2009, Pages 196-209

  Gallala, Njoud ^a   Zaghbib Turki, Dalila ^a   Arenillas, Ignacio ^b   Arz, José Antonio ^b   Molina, Eustoquio ^b  

^a FACULTÉ DES SCIENCES DE TUNIS   (Tunisia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ZARAGOZA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Bidart; biostratigraphy; Cretaceous Paleogene boundary; France; mass extinction; planktic foraminifera; quantitative analysis

Indexed keywords

BIOSTRATIGRAPHY; CATASTROPHIC EVENT; CRETACEOUS; EVOLUTION; MASS EXTINCTION; PALEOGENE; PLANKTONIC FORAMINIFERA;

AQUITAINE; BIDART; EURASIA; EUROPE; FRANCE; PYRENEES ATLANTIQUES; WESTERN EUROPE;

CHILOGUEMBELINA; CONTUSOTRUNCANA; FORAMINIFERA; GLOBIGERINIDAE; GLOBOTRUNCANA; GLOBOTRUNCANIDAE; GUEMBELITRIA; HEDBERGELLA; HETEROHELICIDAE; HETEROHELIX; PARVULARUGOGLOBIGERINA; PSEUDOTEXTULARIA; RACEMIGUEMBELINA; SUBBOTINA TRILOCULINOIDES;

EID: 68349112646     PISSN: 03778398     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.marmicro.2009.05.001     Document Type: Article

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