The calcareous nannofossil crisis in Northern Spain (Asturias province) linked to the Early Toarcian warming-driven mass extinction

Marine Micropaleontology

Volumn 94-95, Issue , 2012, Pages 58-71

  Fraguas, Ángela ^a   Comas Rengifo, María José ^a   Gómez, Juan J ^b   Goy, Antonio ^b  

^a UNIVERSIDAD COMPLUTENSE DE MADRID   (Spain)

^b CSIC   (Spain)

Author keywords

Asturias; Biotic crisis; Calcareous nannofossils; Climate change; Early Toarcian; Extinction event

Indexed keywords

CALCAREOUS ALGA; CLIMATE CHANGE; EXTINCTION; GLOBAL WARMING; JURASSIC; MASS EXTINCTION; NANOFOSSIL; ORGANIC CARBON; PALEOENVIRONMENT; RELATIVE ABUNDANCE; SEAWATER; SHALE; STABLE ISOTOPE; TAXONOMY;

ASTURIAS; SPAIN;

AMMONOIDEA; BELEMNOIDEA; BISCUTUM; LOTHARINGIUS; SCHIZOSPHAERELLA;

EID: 84863758208     PISSN: 03778398     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.marmicro.2012.06.004     Document Type: Article

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