Ecological aspects of the Cretaceous flowering plant radiation

Annual Review of Earth and Planetary Sciences

Volumn 26, Issue , 1998, Pages 379-421

  Wing, Scott L ^a   Boucher, Lisa D ^a  

^a DEPARTMENT OF PALEOBIOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRETACEOUS; FLOWERING PLANT; PALAEOECOLOGY;

EID: 0031690553     PISSN: 00846597     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev.earth.26.1.379     Document Type: Article

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