Floral diversity during Plio-Pleistocene Siwalik sedimentation (Kimin Formation) in Arunachal Pradesh, India, and its palaeoclimatic significance

Palaeobiodiversity and Palaeoenvironments

Volumn 91, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 237-255

  Khan, Mahasin Ali ^a   Ghosh, Ruby ^b,c   Bera, Subir ^a   Spicer, Robert A ^d,e   Spicer, T E V ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALCUTTA   (India)

^b Centre of Advanced Study   (India)

^c BIRBAL SAHNI INSTITUTE OF PALAEOBOTANY   (India)

^d OPEN UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^e INSTITUTE OF BOTANY   (China)

Author keywords

Arunachal Pradesh; Climate; Leaf margin analysis (LMA); Nearest living relative (NLR); Siwalik; Upper Pliocene to lower Pleistocene

Indexed keywords

ANGIOSPERM; EVERGREEN FOREST; FOSSIL RECORD; HUMID ENVIRONMENT; PALEOCLIMATE; PALEOECOLOGY; PALEOENVIRONMENT; PLIOCENE-PLEISTOCENE BOUNDARY; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); SEDIMENTATION; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SUCCESSION; TAXONOMY;

ARUNACHAL PRADESH; INDIA;

ACTINODAPHNE; ACTINODAPHNE OBOVATA; ANACARDIACEAE; APOCYNACEAE; BAMBUSA; BAMBUSA TULDA; BERCHEMIA; BURSERACEAE; CALOPHYLLUM; CALOPHYLLUM POLYANTHUM; CANARIUM; CHONEMORPHA; CLUSIACEAE; COMBRETACEAE; COMBRETUM; CROTON CAUDATUS; DALBERGIA; DIPTEROCARPACEAE; DIPTEROCARPUS; DYSOXYLUM; EUPHORBIACEAE; FABACEAE; FAGACEAE; KNEMA; LAURACEAE; LINDERA; LINDERA PULCHERRIMA; LITSEA; MACARANGA DENTICULATA; MAGNOLIOPHYTA; MANGIFERA INDICA; MELIACEAE; MILLETTIA; POACEAE; PONGAMIA PINNATA; QUERCUS; QUERCUS LAMELLOSA; RHAMNACEAE;

EID: 84857657378     PISSN: 18671594     EISSN: 18671608     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12549-011-0059-z     Document Type: Article

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