Pseudotsuga tanaii Huzioka from the earliest Miocene Shichiku Flora of northeast Japan: Systematics and ecological conditions

Paleontological Research

Volumn 15, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 1-11

  Yabe, Atsushi ^a  

^a Katsuyama   (Japan)

Author keywords

Earliest Miocene; Habitat; Northeast Japan; Pseudotsuga tanaii; Shichiku Flora

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; CONIFEROUS TREE; ENVIRONMENTAL CONDITIONS; ENVIRONMENTAL DEGRADATION; FOSSIL RECORD; HABITAT QUALITY; MIGRATION; MIOCENE; MORPHOLOGY; PALEOECOLOGY; PHYLOGENY; TAXONOMY; TYPE SPECIMEN; VEGETATION STRUCTURE;

JAPAN;

PINACEAE; PSEUDOTSUGA; PSEUDOTSUGA MENZIESII;

EID: 79955945827     PISSN: 13428144     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2517/1342-8144-15.1.001     Document Type: Article

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