Bivalve taxonomic diversity throughout the Italian Pliocene as a tool for climatic-oceanographic and stratigraphic inferences

The state of research on the evolution of marine bivalve taxonomic diversity of the Mediterranean Pliocene is analysed. The following assertions are discussed: 1) The Early Pliocene malacofauna is characterized by a high number of warm-water taxa and a high taxonomic diversity with respect to that o...

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Main Author: Raffi, S. (author)
Other Authors: Monegatti, P. (author)
Format: article
Language:eng
Published: 2010
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10362/3295
Country:Portugal
Oai:oai:run.unl.pt:10362/3295