Newsletters on Stratigraphy, Vol.

53/3 (2020), 275–295 Article

Published online July 1, 2019; published in print June 2020

Revised upper Barremian–upper Aptian planktonic

foraminiferal biostratigraphy of the Gorgo a Cerbara
section (central Italy)

Rodolfo Coccioni1

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