Angiosperm pollen grains of San Just site (Escucha Formation) from the Albian of the Iberian Range (north-eastern Spain)

Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology

Volumn 162, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 362-381

  Villanueva Amadoz, Uxue ^a   Pons, Denise ^b   Diez, José B ^c   Ferrer, Javier ^a   Sender, Luis M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZARAGOZA   (Spain)

^b SORBONNE UNIVERSITÉ   (France)

^c UNIVERSITY OF VIGO   (Spain)

Author keywords

Albian; Angiosperms; Escucha Formation; Iberian Range (Spain); Palynology; Pennipollis escuchensis nov. sp.

Indexed keywords

ANGIOSPERM; BRACKISH WATER; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; CRETACEOUS; FRESHWATER; NEW RECORD; NEW SPECIES; PALYNOLOGY; POLLEN; SWAMP; TAXONOMY;

SPAIN;

CLAVATIPOLLENITES; MAGNOLIOPHYTA; RETIMONOCOLPITES;

EID: 78650075766     PISSN: 00346667     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.revpalbo.2010.02.014     Document Type: Article

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