Middle Eocene mangroves and vegetation changes in the Maracaibo Basin, Venezuela

Palaios

Volumn 13, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 287-296

  Rull, Valentí ^a  

^a Maraven SA   (Venezuela)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EOCENE; MANGROVE; PALAEOECOLOGY;

VENEZUELA;

NYPA; PELLICIERA; RHIZOPHORACEAE; UNIDENTIFIED PLANT;

EID: 0031665262     PISSN: 08831351     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1043/0883-1351(1998)013<0287:MEMAVC>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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