Late carnian-early norian ammonoids from the GSSP candidate section Pizzo Mondello (sicani mountains, Sicily)

Rivista Italiana di Paleontologia e Stratigrafia

Volumn 118, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 47-84

  Balini, Marco ^a   Krystyn, Leopold ^b   Levera, Marco ^a   Tripodo, Angelo ^c  

^a Dipartimento di Scienze della Terra Ardito Desio   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PALERMO   (Italy)

Author keywords

Ammonoids; Biostratigraphy; Carnian Norian boundary; Scillato formation; Sicanian domain; Sicily; Upper triassic

Indexed keywords

BIOSTRATIGRAPHY; CALIBRATION; CEPHALOPOD; CHRONOSTRATIGRAPHY; INTEGRATED APPROACH; MAGNETOSTRATIGRAPHY; NEW RECORD; NEW SPECIES; NORIAN; RESOLUTION; TAXONOMY; TRIASSIC; TWENTIETH CENTURY;

ITALY; PALERMO [SICILY]; SIBERIA; SICANI MOUNTAINS; SICILY;

AMMONOIDEA; HALOBIA; URSUS AMERICANUS;

EID: 84861373366     PISSN: 00356883     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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