The fossil history of palms (Arecaceae) in Africa and new records from the Late Oligocene (28-27 Mya) of north-western Ethiopia

Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society

Volumn 151, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 69-81

  Pan, Aaron D ^a   Jacobs, Bonnie F ^a   Dransfield, John ^b   Baker, William J ^b  

^a SOUTHERN METHODIST UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b ROYAL BOTANIC GARDENS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Campanian; Chilga; East Africa; Eremospatha; Evolution; Extinction; Fossils; Hyphaene; Palmae; West Africa

Indexed keywords

EOCENE-OLIGOCENE BOUNDARY; EVOLUTION; FOSSIL RECORD; POLLEN;

AFRICA; EAST AFRICA; ETHIOPIA; SOUTH AMERICA; SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA;

ARECACEAE; CALAMOIDEAE; CORYPHOIDEAE; EREMOSPATHA; HYPHAENE; MYA;

EID: 33646502994     PISSN: 00244074     EISSN: 10958339     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1095-8339.2006.00523.x     Document Type: Conference Paper

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