Taphonomy and palaeoecology of plant remains from the oldest African Early Cretaceous amber locality

Lethaia

Volumn 35, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 300-308

  Gomez, Bernard ^a   Martínez Delclòs, Xavier ^a   Bamford, Marion ^a   Philippe, Marc ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE WITWATERSRAND   (South Africa)

Author keywords

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

Indexed keywords

AMBER; BIOSTRATIGRAPHY; CRETACEOUS; PALEOBOTANY; PALEOECOLOGY; PLANT; TAPHONOMY;

SOUTH AFRICA;

EID: 0036889789     PISSN: 00241164     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/002411602320790625     Document Type: Article

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