Verdeña (Spain): Life and death of a Carboniferous forest community

Comptes Rendus - Palevol

Volumn 6, Issue 6-7, 2007, Pages 495-504

  Wagner, Robert H ^a   Diez, José B ^b  

^a Centro Paleobotanico   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VIGO   (Spain)

Author keywords

Cantabrian; Carboniferous; Cordaites; Flora; Palaeoecology; Sigillaria; Stratigraphy; Taphonomy

Indexed keywords

FORESTRY; SAND;

CARBONIFEROUS; COLONIZATION; FLOODING; FOREST ECOSYSTEM; GYMNOSPERM; PALEOBOTANY; PALEOECOLOGY; RECONSTRUCTION; SANDBAR; STRATIGRAPHY; TAPHONOMY;

CANTABRIA; EURASIA; EUROPE; SOUTHERN EUROPE; SPAIN;

CORDAITALES; CORDAITES; SIGILLARIA;

EID: 36749094577     PISSN: 16310683     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.crpv.2007.09.021     Document Type: Article

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