Cryptospore assemblages from Upper Ordovician (Katian-Hirnantian) strata of Anticosti Island, Québec, Canada, and Estonia: Palaeophytogeographic and palaeoclimatic implications

Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology

Volumn 166, Issue 1-2, 2011, Pages 76-93

  Vecoli, Marco ^a,b   Delabroye, Aurélien ^c   Spina, Amalia ^d   Hints, Olle ^e  

^a UNIV LILLE   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAGLIARI   (Italy)

^c CNRS   (France)

^d CNR Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche   (Italy)

^e TALLINN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Estonia)

Author keywords

Cryptospores; Hirnantian; Late Ordovician; Palaeobotany; Phytogeography; Terrestrialization

Indexed keywords

BALTICA; BOREHOLE; DEPOSITIONAL SEQUENCE; FOSSIL RECORD; LAURENTIA; ORDOVICIAN; PALEOBOTANY; PALEOCLIMATE; PALYNOLOGY; PALYNOMORPH; SPORE; VEGETATION COVER;

ANTICOSTI ISLAND; CANADA; ESTONIA; QUEBEC [CANADA];

ACRITARCHA; CHITINOZOA; EMBRYOPHYTA;

EID: 79959877707     PISSN: 00346667     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.revpalbo.2011.05.006     Document Type: Article

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