Cretaceous/Paleogene Floral Turnover in Patagonia: Drop in Diversity, Low Extinction, and a Classopollis Spike

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 12, 2012, Pages

  Barreda, Viviana D ^a   Cúneo, Nestor R ^b   Wilf, Peter ^c   Currano, Ellen D ^d   Scasso, Roberto A ^e   Brinkhuis, Henk ^f  

^a MUSEO ARGENTINO DE CIENCIAS NATURALES BERNARDINO RIVADAVIA   (Argentina)

^b MUSEO PALEONTOLÓGICO EGIDIO FERUGLIO   (Argentina)

^c PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d MIAMI UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e UNIVERSIDAD DE BUENOS AIRES   (Argentina)

^f UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BIODIVERSITY; CENOZOIC; CHEIROLEPIDIACEAE; CLASSOPOLLIS; CONIFER; DANIAN; END CRETACEOUS MASS EXTINCTION; EOCENE; FLORA; GYMNOSPERM; MESOZOA; NEW ZEALAND; NONHUMAN; NORTH AMERICA; NORTHERN HEMISPHERE; PALEOCENE; PALYNOLOGY; POPULATION ABUNDANCE; SOUTHERN HEMISPHERE; SPECIES EXTINCTION;

ARGENTINA; BIODIVERSITY; EXTINCTION, BIOLOGICAL; FLOWERS; GEOGRAPHY; GYMNOSPERMS; POLLEN; SPORES; TIME FACTORS;

CHEIROLEPIDIACEAE; CLASSOPOLLIS; CONIFEROPHYTA; EMBRYOPHYTA; GYMNOSPERMAE;

EID: 84871310198     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0052455     Document Type: Article

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