To correlate or not to correlate-that is not the question anymore! continental late jurassic to early cretaceous supraregional correlation based on freshwater to brackish-water ostracodes

Palaios

Volumn 25, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 3-5

  Sames, Benjamin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRETACEOUS; FRESHWATER ECOSYSTEM; JURASSIC; OSTRACOD; PALEOBIOLOGY;

OSTRACODA;

EID: 75449117331     PISSN: 08831351     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2110/palo.2010.S01     Document Type: Article

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