Upper Ordovician conodont biostratigraphy and the age of the Collingwood Member, southern Ontario, Canada

Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences

Volumn 48, Issue 11, 2011, Pages 1497-1522

  Zhang, Shunxin ^a   Tarrant, Glen A ^b   Barnes, Christopher R ^c  

^a Canada Nunavut Geoscience Office   (Canada)

^b University of Victoria ^*  (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF VICTORIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BLUE MOUNTAIN; CARBONATE PLATFORMS; COMPOSITE SECTIONS; CONODONT ZONE; HYDROCARBON SOURCE ROCKS; NEW SPECIES; NORTH ATLANTIC; ONTARIO; ONTARIO , CANADA; ORDOVICIAN; ORGANIC-RICH SHALES; TAXONOMIC REVISION; TAXONOMIC STUDY;

ANIMALS; HYDROCARBON REFINING; HYDROCARBONS; PETROLEUM PROSPECTING;

BIOSTRATIGRAPHY;

AGE DETERMINATION; BIOSTRATIGRAPHY; CARBONATE PLATFORM; CONODONT; DEPOSITIONAL SEQUENCE; FOREARC BASIN; MICROPALEONTOLOGY; NEW SPECIES; NOMENCLATURE; ORDOVICIAN; PALEOBIOLOGY; SHALE; SOURCE ROCK; TAXONOMY;

CANADA; GREAT LAKES [NORTH AMERICA]; LAKE HURON; ONTARIO [CANADA];

AMORPHOGNATHUS ORDOVICICUS; OULODUS;

EID: 80055092994     PISSN: 00084077     EISSN: 14803313     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1139/e11-047     Document Type: Article

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