A low diversity, seasonal tropical landscape dominated by conifers and peltasperms: Early Permian Abo Formation, New Mexico

Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology

Volumn 145, Issue 3-4, 2007, Pages 249-273

  DiMichele, William A ^a   Chaney, Dan S ^a   Nelson, W John ^b   Lucas, Spencer G ^c   Looy, Cindy V ^a   Quick, Karen ^d   Jun, Wang ^e  

^a SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION   (United States)

^b ILLINOIS STATE GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

^c NEW MEXICO MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY AND SCIENCE   (United States)

^d Chinese Academy of Sciences ^*  (United States)

^e NANJING INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND PALAEONTOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

diversity; New Mexico; Paleoecology; Permian; Supaia; Walchia

Indexed keywords

CHANNEL; COASTAL PLAIN; COEXISTENCE; CONIFEROUS TREE; DOMINANCE; FOSSIL; LANDSCAPE; PERMIAN; SEASONAL VARIATION; SPECIES DIVERSITY; STRATIGRAPHY; TROPICAL ENVIRONMENT;

NEW MEXICO; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

CONIFEROPHYTA; INVERTEBRATA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 34249290402     PISSN: 00346667     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.revpalbo.2006.11.003     Document Type: Article

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