Revision of Early Cretaceous angiosperm remains from the Rajmahal Basin, India, with notes on the palaeoecology of the Pentoxylon plant

Cretaceous Research

Volumn 33, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 66-71

  Srivastava, Rashmi ^a   Krassilov, Valentin A ^b,c  

^a BIRBAL SAHNI INSTITUTE OF PALAEOBOTANY   (India)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HAIFA   (Israel)

^c PALEONTOLOGICAL INSTITUTE   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

Angiosperms; Bennettitales; Cretaceous; Geophytes; India; Pentoxylales; Zoochory

Indexed keywords

ANGIOSPERM; APTIAN; BARREMIAN; CRETACEOUS; GEOPHYTE; GYMNOSPERM; PALEOECOLOGY; PALYNOLOGY;

INDIA; RAJMAHAL BASIN;

CYCADEOIDALES; GYMNOSPERMAE; MAGNOLIOPHYTA; PENTOXYLALES;

EID: 82455212258     PISSN: 01956671     EISSN: 1095998X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cretres.2011.08.003     Document Type: Article

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