Iara iguassu, a new taxon of aquatic angiosperm from the Crato Palaeoflora (lower cretaceous, Santana Formation, Araripe Basin, northeastern Brazil)

Geociencias

Volumn 25, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 211-216

  Fanton, Jean Carlo Mari ^a   Ricardi Branco, Fresia ^a   Dilcher, David ^b   Bernardes De Oliveira, Mary ^c,d  

^a Cidade Universitária Zeferino Vaz Barão Geraldo   (Brazil)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

^c GUARULHOS UNIVERSITY   (Brazil)

^d Departamento de Meteorologia   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Aquatic angiosperm; Araripe Basin; Crato Member; Early cretaceous

Indexed keywords

ANGIOSPERM; AQUATIC ORGANISM; CRETACEOUS; DEPOSITIONAL ENVIRONMENT; EVOLUTION; FOSSIL RECORD; GONDWANA; LACUSTRINE ENVIRONMENT; MORPHOLOGY; NEW TAXON; PALEOENVIRONMENT; SPECIES DIVERSITY;

ARARIPE BASIN; BRAZIL; SOUTH AMERICA;

CYMODOCEACEAE; DICOTYLEDONEAE; LILIOPSIDA; MAGNOLIOPHYTA; PODOSTEMACEAE; POTAMOGETONACEAE; RUPPIACEAE;

EID: 33847041910     PISSN: 01019082     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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