The Jurassic-Cretaceous boundary: New data from North America and the Caribbean

Stratigraphy

Volumn 6, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 185-262

  Pessagno Jr , Emile A ^a   Cantú Chapa, Abelardo ^b   Mattinson, James M ^c   Meng, Xiangying ^a   Kariminia, Seyed Mohsen ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT DALLAS   (United States)

^b INSTITUTO POLITÉCNICO NACIONAL   (Mexico)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMMONITE; BIOSTRATIGRAPHY; BIOZONATION; FAUNISTICS; FLORISTICS; JURASSIC; JURASSIC-CRETACEOUS BOUNDARY; NANOFOSSIL; NOMENCLATURE; PHANEROZOIC; RADIOLARIA;

ANTARCTICA; ARGENTINA; BAJA CALIFORNIA [(PNN) MEXICO]; CALIFORNIA; CARIBBEAN ISLANDS; EUROPE; MEXICO [NORTH AMERICA]; UNITED STATES;

AMMONOIDEA; CALPIONELLA; CLARKIA CONCINNA; CODONELLOPSIDAE; DURANGITES;

EID: 77949802643     PISSN: 1547139X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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