Late Ordovician-earliest Silurian chitinozoans from the Qusaiba-1 core hole (North Central Saudi Arabia) and their relation to the Hirnantian glaciation

Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology

Volumn 212, Issue , 2015, Pages 60-84

  Paris, Florentin ^a,b   Verniers, Jacques ^c   Miller, Merrell A ^d   Al Hajri, Sa'id ^e   Melvin, John ^e   Wellman, Charles H ^f  

^a Rue des Jonquilles ^*  (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE RENNES 1   (France)

^c GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

^d IRF GROUP INC   (United States)

^e SAUDI ARAMCO   (Saudi Arabia)

^f UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Biostratigraphy; Carbon isotope; Chitinozoan; Hirnantian glaciation; Late Ordovician; Saudi Arabia

Indexed keywords

BIOSTRATIGRAPHY; CARBON ISOTOPE; FACIES; GLACIATION; GRAPTOLITE; HIRNANTIAN; MICROFOSSIL; NEW RECORD; NEW SPECIES; ORDOVICIAN-SILURIAN BOUNDARY; SAMPLING; SANDSTONE; SHALE; STABLE ISOTOPE;

SAUDI ARABIA;

ACRITARCHA; ANCYROCHITINA; BELONECHITINA; BELONECHITINA ROBUSTA; BRACHIOPODA; CALPICHITINA; CHITINOZOA; CONOCHITINA; CYATHOCHITINA; DESMOCHITINA; FUNGOCHITINA; MERGA; SPINACHITINA;

EID: 84918799059     PISSN: 00346667     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.revpalbo.2014.10.005     Document Type: Article

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