Late Paleocene fossils from the Cerrejón Formation, Colombia, are the earliest record of Neotropical rainforest

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 106, Issue 44, 2009, Pages 18627-18632

  Wing, Scott L ^a   Herrera, Fabiany ^b,c   Jaramillo, Carlos A ^b   Gómez Navarro, Carolina ^b,d   Wilf, Peter ^e   Labandeira, Conrad C ^a  

^a DEPARTMENT OF PALEOBIOLOGY   (United States)

^b SMITHSONIAN TROPICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Panama)

^c UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^e PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Diversity; Fabaceae; Paleobotany; Paleoclimate; Stability

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COLOMBIA; CONTROLLED STUDY; FOSSIL POLLEN; NEOTROPICS; NONHUMAN; PALEOCLIMATE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAIN FOREST; TEMPERATURE MEASUREMENT; THANETIAN;

BIODIVERSITY; COLOMBIA; FOSSILS; GEOLOGIC SEDIMENTS; PLANT LEAVES; POLLEN; RAIN; TIME FACTORS; TREES; TROPICAL CLIMATE;

FABACEAE; HEXAPODA; MAGNOLIOPHYTA;

EID: 73249114939     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0905130106     Document Type: Article

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