Facies, depositional environment, and palaeoecology of the Middle Triassic Cassina beds (Meride Limestone, Monte San Giorgio, Switzerland)

Swiss Journal of Geosciences

Volumn 103, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 101-119

  Stockar, Rudolf ^a,b  

^a Museo Cantonale di Storia Naturale   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LAUSANNE   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Cassina beds; Depositional environment; Facies; Middle Triassic; Monte San Giorgio; Palaeoecology

Indexed keywords

ALLOCHTHON; BENTHIC ENVIRONMENT; BIOFILM; BIOSTRATIGRAPHY; DEPOSITIONAL ENVIRONMENT; FACIES; FORAMINIFERA; LIMESTONE; MICROBIAL MAT; MICROPALEONTOLOGY; NEKTON; PALEOECOLOGY; REPTILE; SEAFLOOR; SEDIMENTATION; SHALLOW WATER; TAPHONOMY; THANATOCENOSIS; TRIASSIC; VOLCANIC ERUPTION; VOLCANICLASTIC DEPOSIT;

MONTE SAN GIORGIO; SWITZERLAND; TICINO;

PISCES; REPTILIA; SAURICHTHYS; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 77954177609     PISSN: 16618726     EISSN: 16618734     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00015-010-0008-2     Document Type: Article

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