Late Cretaceous and Paleocene terrestrial climates of New Zealand: Leaf fossil evidence from South Island assemblages

New Zealand Journal of Geology and Geophysics

Volumn 46, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 295-306

  Kennedy, Elizabeth M ^a  

^a GNS SCIENCE   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

CLAMP; Late Cretaceous; Leaf fossils; Leaf Margin Analysis; Paleocene; Paleoclimate; South Island

Indexed keywords

CRETACEOUS; FOSSIL ASSEMBLAGE; LEAF MORPHOLOGY; PALEOCENE; PALEOCLIMATE; PALEOECOLOGY;

NEW ZEALAND; SOUTH ISLAND;

EID: 0041677597     PISSN: 00288306     EISSN: 11758791     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00288306.2003.9515010     Document Type: Article

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