An occurrence of the Gondwanan plant Fraxinopsis in the upper Triassic of Eastern North America

Modern Geology

Volumn 21, Issue 1-3, 1999, Pages 299-308

  Axsmith, Brian J ^a   Taylor, Thomas N ^a   Fraser, Nicholas C ^b   Olsen, Paul E ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS   (United States)

^b VIRGINIA MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY   (United States)

^c International Research Institute for Climate and Society   (United States)

Author keywords

Fraxinopsis; Gondwana; Late Triassic; Laurasia; Newark supergroup

Indexed keywords

EID: 0040315218     PISSN: 00267775     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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