Did dinosaurs invent flowers? Dinosaur - Angiosperm coevolution revisited

Biological Reviews of the Cambridge Philosophical Society

Volumn 76, Issue 3, 2001, Pages 411-447

  Barrett, Paul M ^a   Willis, Katherine J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Angiosperm; Atmospheric CO2; Coevolutionary interactions; Cretaceous palaeobotany; Herbivory; Ornithischia; Sauropoda; Spatiotemporal comparisons

Indexed keywords

ANGIOSPERM; ECOLOGY; EVOLUTION; FAUNA; FOSSIL; NONHUMAN; PHYSICAL ANTHROPOLOGY; REVIEW; TAXONOMY; TOMOGRAPHY;

ANGIOSPERMS; ANIMALS; DINOSAURS; EVOLUTION; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; PALEONTOLOGY;

ANIMALIA; DINOSAURIA; HEXAPODA; MAGNOLIOPHYTA; MAMMALIA; ORNITHISCHIA; SAUROPODA;

EID: 0034841464     PISSN: 14647931     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S1464793101005735     Document Type: Review

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