New biostratigraphical constraints on the lower Cambrian Ratcliffe Brook Formation, southern New Brunswick, Canada, from organic-walled microfossils

Stratigraphy

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 45-60

  Palacios, Teodoro ^a   Jensen, Sören ^a   Barr, Sandra M ^b   White, Chris E ^c   Miller, Randall F ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EXTREMADURA   (Spain)

^b ACADIA UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c NOVA SCOTIA DEPARTMENT OF NATURAL RESOURCES   (Canada)

^d NEW BRUNSWICK MUSEUM   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACRITARCH; BIOSTRATIGRAPHY; CAMBRIAN; FOSSIL ASSEMBLAGE; MICROFOSSIL; TRILOBITE;

CANADA; NEW BRUNSWICK; RUSSIAN PLATFORM;

ACRITARCHA; COMASPHAERIDIUM; SKIAGIA; TRILOBITOMORPHA; WATSONELLA;

EID: 80052695736     PISSN: 1547139X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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