Foraminiferal turnover across the Paleocene/Eocene boundary at the Zumaya section, Spain: Record of a bathyal gradual mass extinction

Revista Mexicana de Ciencias Geologicas

Volumn 26, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 729-744

  Zili, Lamia ^a   Zaghbib Turki, Dalila ^a   Alegret, Laia ^b   Arenillas, Ignacio ^b   Molina, Eustoquio ^b  

^a FACULTÉ DES SCIENCES DE TUNIS   (Tunisia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ZARAGOZA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Acarinina; Benthic foraminifers; Early Eocene; Gradual mass extinction; Late Paleocene; Spain; Warming; Zumaya section

Indexed keywords

EID: 77949599497     PISSN: 10268774     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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