Ammonite faunas, OAE and the Pliensbachian-Toarcian boundary (Early Jurassic) in the Apennines

Lethaia

Volumn 43, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 357-380

  Bilotta, Massimiliano ^a   Venturi, Federico ^a   Sassaroli, Stefano ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PERUGIA   (Italy)

^b NONE   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMMONITE; ANOXIC CONDITIONS; CHRONOSTRATIGRAPHY; FAUNA; FOSSIL ASSEMBLAGE; PALEONTOLOGY; PLIENSBACHIAN; TAXONOMY; TOARCIAN;

APENNINES; ITALY;

AMMONOIDEA; DACTYLIOCERAS; DACTYLIOCERATIDAE; HILDOCERATIDAE; LYTOCERAS; LYTOCERATIDAE; PHYLLOCERATIDA; PHYLLOCERATIDAE; PROTOGRAMMOCERATINAE;

EID: 77955360980     PISSN: 00241164     EISSN: 15023931     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1502-3931.2009.00201.x     Document Type: Article

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