Depositional environment of coral-rudist associations in the upper cretaceous cardenas formation (central Mexico)

Geologia Croatica

Volumn 56, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 187-198

  Schafhauser, Armin ^a   Götz, Stefan ^a   Baron Szabo, Rosemarie ^b   Stinnesbeck, Wolfgang ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KARLSRUHE   (Germany)

^b SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION   (United States)

Author keywords

Corals; Maastrichtian; Reefs; Rudists; Upper cretaceous

Indexed keywords

ALGAE; ANTHOZOA; RADIOLITIDAE;

EID: 7544247751     PISSN: 1330030X     EISSN: 13334875     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4154/GC.2003.12     Document Type: Article

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