Nypa megafossils from the Tertiary sediments of Northeast India

Geobios

Volumn 36, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 83-92

  Mehrotra, R C ^a   Tiwari, R P ^b   Mazumder, B I ^c  

^a BIRBAL SAHNI INSTITUTE OF PALAEOBOTANY   (India)

^b PACHHUNGA UNIVERSITY COLLEGE   (India)

^c KARIMGANJ COLLEGE   (India)

Author keywords

Megafossils; Northeast India; Nypa; Palaeoecology; Phytogeography; Tertiary

Indexed keywords

DISPERSAL; FRUIT; MIOCENE; OLIGOCENE; PALEOECOLOGY; PHYTOGEOGRAPHY; TERTIARY;

(NORTHEAST); INDIA;

NYPA;

EID: 0037440333     PISSN: 00166995     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0016-6995(02)00107-9     Document Type: Article

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