Preliminary account of plant mesofossils from the Maastrichtian Budurone microvertebrate site of the Haţeg Basin, Romania

Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology

Volumn 293, Issue 3-4, 2010, Pages 353-359

  Lindfors, Sandra May ^a   Csiki, Zoltán ^b   Grigorescu, Dan ^b   Friis, Else Marie ^a  

^a SWEDISH MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY   (Sweden)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BUCHAREST   (Romania)

Author keywords

Angiosperms; Cretaceous; Dispersal; Fossil fruits; Fossil seeds; Mesofossils

Indexed keywords

ANGIOSPERM; DEPOSITIONAL ENVIRONMENT; DISPERSAL; FOSSIL RECORD; INVERTEBRATE; MAASTRICHTIAN; MICROFOSSIL; PALEOBIOLOGY;

HATEG BASIN; ROMANIA;

MAGNOLIOPHYTA;

EID: 77954953293     PISSN: 00310182     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.palaeo.2009.10.018     Document Type: Article

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