Upper Cretaceous-Paleocene conifer woods from Big Bend National Park, Texas

Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology

Volumn 226, Issue 3-4, 2005, Pages 233-258

  Wheeler, E A ^a   Lehman, T M ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

Araucariaceae; Big Bend; Campanian; Conifer; Cretaceous; Cupressaceae; Maastrichtian; Paleobotany; Paleocene; Petrified wood; Podocarpaceae; Wood anatomy

Indexed keywords

CONIFEROUS FOREST; CRETACEOUS; PALEOBOTANY; PALEOCENE;

BIG BEND NATIONAL PARK; NORTH AMERICA; TEXAS; UNITED STATES; WESTERN HEMISPHERE; WORLD;

ARAUCARIACEAE; CHEIROLEPIDIACEAE; CONIFEROPHYTA; CUPRESSACEAE; MAGNOLIOPHYTA; PECARI TAJACU; PODOCARPACEAE;

EID: 25144517154     PISSN: 00310182     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.palaeo.2005.05.014     Document Type: Article

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