A late cretaceous coniferous woodland from the San Juan Basin, New Mexico

Palaios

Volumn 26, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 89-98

  Davies Vollum, K Sian ^a   Boucher, Lisa D ^b   Hudson, Patrick ^b   Proskurowski, A Yael ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA AT OMAHA   (United States)

^c POMONA COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

Campanian

Indexed keywords

CONIFEROUS FOREST; CRETACEOUS; FLOODPLAIN; FOSSIL RECORD; GIS; PALEOBOTANY; PALEOECOLOGY; SEDIMENTOLOGY; SUBSTRATE; TAXONOMY; WOODLAND;

MEXICO [NORTH AMERICA]; SAN JUAN BASIN [MEXICO];

CONIFEROPHYTA; CUPRESSACEAE; MAGNOLIOPHYTA;

EID: 79551560996     PISSN: 08831351     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2110/palo.2010.p10-090r     Document Type: Article

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