The succession of vertebrates and plants across the Cretaceous-Tertiary boundary in the tremp formation, Ager valley (South-central Pyrenees, Spain)

Geobios

Volumn 32, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 617-627

  López Martínez, Nieves ^a   Fernández Marrón, Ma Teresa ^a   Valle, Maria F ^b  

^a UNIVERSIDAD COMPLUTENSE DE MADRID   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SALAMANCA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Cretaceous Tertiary boundary; Palaeobotany; Pyrenees; Tremp Fm; Vertebrates

Indexed keywords

CRETACEOUS-TERTIARY BOUNDARY; PALEOBOTANY; VERTEBRATE;

PYRENEES; SPAIN;

DINOSAURIA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0033375094     PISSN: 00166995     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0016-6995(99)80011-4     Document Type: Article

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