Lower Cretaceous plant cuticles and amber (Kirkwood Formation, South Africa);Cuticules végétales et ambre du Crétacé inférieur (formation Kirkwood, Afrique du Sud)

Comptes Rendus - Palevol

Volumn 1, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 83-87

  Gomez, Bernard ^a   Bamford, Marion ^a   Martínez Delclòs, Xavier ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE WITWATERSRAND   (South Africa)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Amber; Early Cretaceous; Kirkwood Formation; Plant cuticles; South Africa

Indexed keywords

AMBER; CRETACEOUS; CUTICLE; PALEOBOTANY; PLANT; SPECIES DIVERSITY;

SOUTH AFRICA;

EID: 0011483855     PISSN: 16310683     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1631-0683(02)00014-3     Document Type: Article

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