Palynology and microfacies of lower devonian mixed carbonate-siliciclastic deposits in Podolia, Ukraine

Acta Palaeontologica Polonica

Volumn 57, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 863-877

  Filipiak, Paweł ^a   Zatoń, Michał ^a   Szaniawski, Hubert ^b   Wrona, Ryszard ^b   Racki, Grzegorz ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SILESIA   (Poland)

^b INSTITUTE OF PALEOBIOLOGY   (Poland)

Author keywords

carbonate microfacies; cuticles; Eurypterids; Lower Devonian; palynofacies; palynostratigraphy; Podolia

Indexed keywords

CARBONATE; DEVONIAN; ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE; ICHTHYOFAUNA; MICROFACIES; PALEOENVIRONMENT; PALYNOLOGY; SILICICLASTIC DEPOSIT; TAXONOMY;

PODOLIA; UKRAINE;

ACRITARCHA; ANIMALIA; ARTHROPODA; BIVALVIA; BRACHIOPODA; CHAETETIDAE; CHITINOZOA; EURYPTERIDA; LEPERDITICOPIDA; NUCULANIDAE; OSTRACODA; TEREBRATULIDA;

EID: 84871582345     PISSN: 05677920     EISSN: 17322421     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4202/app.2011.0184     Document Type: Article

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