Permian vegetational Pompeii from Inner Mongolia and its implications for landscape paleoecology and paleobiogeography of Cathaysia

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 109, Issue 13, 2012, Pages 4927-4932

  Wang, Jun ^a   Pfefferkorn, Hermann W ^b   Zhang, Yi ^c   Feng, Zhuo ^d  

^a NANJING INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND PALAEONTOLOGY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^c SHENYANG NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^d YUNNAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Coal swamp plant community; Plant paleoecology; Volcanic ash fall tuff; Wuda

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BIOGEOGRAPHY; CONIFER; CONTROLLED STUDY; EUROPE; LANDSCAPE ECOLOGY; MONGOLIA; NONHUMAN; NORTH AMERICA; PALEOCLIMATE; PALEOECOLOGY; PERMIAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VEGETATION;

CHINA; ECOSYSTEM; GEOGRAPHY; ITALY; PALEONTOLOGY; PLANTS; SOIL; TIME FACTORS; TREES; VOLCANIC ERUPTIONS;

CONIFEROPHYTA; CORDAITES; FILICOPHYTA; LYCOPODIOPSIDA; NOEGGERATHIALES; SIGILLARIA;

EID: 84859475752     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1115076109     Document Type: Article

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