Biodiversity patterns of Ordovician marine microphytoplankton from Baltica: Comparison with other fossil groups and sea-level changes

Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology

Volumn 294, Issue 3-4, 2010, Pages 161-173

  Hints, Olle ^a   Delabroye, Aurélien ^b   Nõlvak, Jaak ^a   Servais, Thomas ^b,c   Uutela, Anneli ^d   Wallin, Åsa ^e  

^a TALLINN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Estonia)

^b UNIV LILLE   (France)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^e STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Acritarchs; Baltica; Biodiversity; Microphytoplankton; Ordovician; Sea level changes

Indexed keywords

ACRITARCH; BIOSTRATIGRAPHY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DATA SET; EXTINCTION; FOSSIL ASSEMBLAGE; MICROPLANKTON; ORDOVICIAN; PALEOCEANOGRAPHY; PALEOCLIMATE; PALEOGEOGRAPHY; PALYNOMORPH; PHYTOPLANKTON; POLYCHAETE; POPULATION DECLINE; SEA LEVEL CHANGE; SPECIES DIVERSITY;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; BALTIC SEA; ESTONIA;

ACRITARCHA; BRACHIOPODA; CHITINOZOA; INVERTEBRATA; OSTRACODA; POLYCHAETA;

EID: 77955273768     PISSN: 00310182     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.palaeo.2009.11.003     Document Type: Article

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