Triassic and jurassic calcareous nannofossils of the pizzo mondello section: A sem study

Rivista Italiana di Paleontologia e Stratigrafia

Volumn 118, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 131-141

  Preto, Nereo ^a,b,c   Rigo, Manuel ^a   Agnini, Claudia ^a   Bertinelli, Angela ^d   Guaiumi, Chiara ^a   Borello, Stefano ^a   Westphal, Hildegard ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BREMEN   (Germany)

^c LEIBNIZ CENTRE FOR TROPICAL MARINE RESEARCH ZMT   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF PERUGIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Calcareous dinocysts; Calcareous nannofossils; Conodonts; Lower jurassic; Radiolarians; Tethys; Upper triassic

Indexed keywords

BIOSTRATIGRAPHY; COCCOLITH; FOSSIL RECORD; JURASSIC; LIMESTONE; NANOFOSSIL; RARE SPECIES; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SPECIES RICHNESS; TAXONOMY; TRIASSIC;

HAPTOPHYCEAE; RADIOLARIA (PROTOZOANS); THORACOSPHAERA;

EID: 84861387625     PISSN: 00356883     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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