Detailed palaeontologic and taphonomic techniques to reconstruct an earliest Paleocene fossil flora: An example from southwestern North Dakota, USA

Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology

Volumn 151, Issue 3-4, 2008, Pages 136-146

  BERCOVICI, Antoine ^a   WOOD, Jacqueline ^b   PEARSON, Dean ^c  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE RENNES 1   (France)

^b Delgado Community College   (United States)

^c Pioneer Trails Regional Museum   (United States)

Author keywords

Cretaceous Tertiary boundary; Fort Union formation; fossil flora; leaf mat; paleoenvironment; taphonomy

Indexed keywords

AGE STRUCTURE; BIOSTRATIGRAPHY; CARBON; CRETACEOUS; FOSSIL RECORD; LEAF; LITHOLOGY; PALEOCENE; PALEOENVIRONMENT; PALEONTOLOGY; RECONSTRUCTION; TAPHONOMY; TAXONOMY;

NORTH AMERICA; NORTH DAKOTA; UNITED STATES;

DICOTYLEDONEAE; MAMMALIA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 50549098838     PISSN: 00346667     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.revpalbo.2008.03.004     Document Type: Article

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