Early ladinian radiolarian fauna from the Monte San Giorgio (Southern Alps, Switzerland): Systematic, biostratigraphy and paleo(bio)Geographic implications

Rivista Italiana di Paleontologia e Stratigrafia

Volumn 118, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 375-437

  Stockar, Rudolf ^a,b   Dumitrica, Paulian ^a   Baumgartner, Peter O ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LAUSANNE   (Switzerland)

^b Museo Cantonale di Storia Naturale   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Biostratigraphy; Ladinian; Middle triassic; Monte san giorgio; Palaeobiogeography; Radiolaria; Systematics

Indexed keywords

ANISIAN; BIOSTRATIGRAPHY; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; LADINIAN; NEW SPECIES; PALEOGEOGRAPHY; RADIOLARIA; SPECIES DIVERSITY; TAXONOMY;

MONTE SAN GIORGIO; SWITZERLAND; TICINO;

AMMONOIDEA; NASSELLARIA;

EID: 84871536317     PISSN: 00356883     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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