Palaeoclimate estimates for the Late Oligocene taphoflora of Enspel (Westerwald, West Germany) based on palaeobotanical proxies

Palaeobiodiversity and Palaeoenvironments

Volumn 90, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 39-47

  Uhl, Dieter ^a,b   Herrmann, Mark ^a  

^a SENCKENBERG RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

CLAMP; Coexistence approach; Floral complex Rott Thierbach; Late Oligocene; Leafmargin analysis; Palaeoclimate

Indexed keywords

BASALT; BIOSTRATIGRAPHY; COEXISTENCE; CROCODILIAN; FOSSIL RECORD; LEAF; OLIGOCENE; PALEOBOTANY; PALEOCLIMATE; PALYNOMORPH; PROXY CLIMATE RECORD; SEDIMENTARY SEQUENCE; TAPHONOMY; TEMPERATURE PROFILE; VEGETATION DYNAMICS;

GERMANY; WESTERWALD;

ALLIGATOR; CROCODYLIDAE (ALL CROCODILES); MYA;

EID: 77953425812     PISSN: 18671594     EISSN: 18671608     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12549-009-0018-0     Document Type: Article

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