Mass extinctions in plant evolution

Extinctions in the History of Life

Volumn , Issue , 2004, Pages 61-97

  Wing, Scott L ^a  

^a SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION   (United States)

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DOI: 10.1017/CBO9780511607370.004     Document Type: Chapter

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