Palaeoenvironments of the late Triassic Rhaetian Sea: Implications from oxygen and strontium isotopes of hybodont shark teeth

Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology

Volumn 353-355, Issue , 2012, Pages 60-72

  Fischer, Jan ^a   Voigt, Silke ^b   Franz, Matthias ^a   Schneider, Jörg W ^a   Joachimski, Michael M ^c   Tichomirowa, Marion ^a   Götze, Jens ^a   Furrer, Heinz ^d  

^a TU BERGAKADEMIE FREIBERG   (Germany)

^b GOETHE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

^d PALÄONTOLOGISCHES INSTITUT UND MUSEUM   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Hybodont sharks; Oxygen isotopes; Palaeoecology; Rhaetian; Salinity; Strontium isotopes

Indexed keywords

CATHODOLUMINESCENCE; INLAND SEA; INTRASPECIFIC VARIATION; OXYGEN ISOTOPE; PALEOECOLOGY; PALEOENVIRONMENT; RIVER DISCHARGE; SEA SURFACE SALINITY; SEAWATER; STRONTIUM ISOTOPE; TETHYS; TOOTH; TRACER; TRIASSIC;

GERMANIC BASIN;

CHONDRICHTHYES; HYBODUS; LISSODUS;

EID: 84865155885     PISSN: 00310182     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.palaeo.2012.07.002     Document Type: Article

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