The graptolite, conodont and sedimentary record through the late Ludlow Kozlowskii Event (Silurian) in the shale-dominated succession of Bohemia

Geological Magazine

Volumn 149, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 507-531

  Manda, Štěpán ^a   Štorch, Petr ^b   Slavík, Ladislav ^b   Frýda, Jiří ^a,c   Kříž, Jiří ^a   Tasáryová, Zuzana ^a  

^a CZECH GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (Czech Republic)

^b INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY   (Czech Republic)

^c CZECH UNIVERSITY OF LIFE SCIENCES PRAGUE   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

biostratigraphy; conodonts; extinction; graptolites; Kozlowskii Event; peri Gondwana; Silurian

Indexed keywords

ANIMALS; BIOSTRATIGRAPHY; CARBON; ISOTOPES; LIGHT EXTINCTION; LIME; LIMESTONE; OFFSHORE OIL WELL PRODUCTION; RECOVERY; SEA LEVEL; SEDIMENTOLOGY;

CONODONTS; GRAPTOLITES; KOZLOWSKII EVENT; PERI-GONDWANA; SILURIAN;

SHALE;

BIOSTRATIGRAPHY; BIOZONATION; CARBON ISOTOPE; CONGLOMERATE; CONODONT; EXTINCTION; FOSSIL RECORD; GEOLOGICAL RECORD; GONDWANA; GRAPTOLITE; SILURIAN; SPECIES OCCURRENCE; STRATIGRAPHIC CORRELATION; TAXONOMY;

BOHEMIA; CZECH REPUBLIC;

BOHEMOGRAPTUS; MYODOCOPIDA; ORTHOCERIDA; OSTRACODA; OZARKODINA; PRISTIOGRAPTUS;

EID: 84859539519     PISSN: 00167568     EISSN: 14695081     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0016756811000847     Document Type: Article

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