Coniferopsid tree trunks preserved in sabkha facies in the Permian (Sakmarian) Community Pit Formation in south-central New Mexico, U.S.A.: Systematics and palaeoecology

Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology

Volumn 200, Issue , 2014, Pages 138-160

  Falcon Lang, Howard J ^a   Kurzawe, Francine ^a   Lucas, Spencer G ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science   (United States)

Author keywords

Conifer; Cordaitalean; Fossil wood; Pangaea; Permian; Sabkha

Indexed keywords

ALLOCHTHON; ANATOMY; CONIFEROUS TREE; FOSSIL ASSEMBLAGE; FOSSIL RECORD; NEW GENUS; NEW SPECIES; PALEOECOLOGY; PANGAEA; PERMIAN; PHENOLOGY; PRESERVATION; SABKHA; SAKMARIAN; SHRUB; SILICICLASTIC DEPOSIT; SILICIFICATION; SPECIMEN BANK; TAXONOMY; TREE RING; XYLEM;

LAS CRUCES; NEW MEXICO; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84884939121     PISSN: 00346667     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.revpalbo.2013.09.004     Document Type: Article

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