The plant fossil record reflects just two great extinction events

Terra Nova

Volumn 26, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 195-200

  Cascales Miñana, Borja ^a   Cleal, Christopher J ^b  

^a UMR AMAP   (France)

^b DEPARTMENT OF GEOLOGY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

BIOSTRATIGRAPHY; CARBONIFEROUS; ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE; EXTINCTION; FOSSIL ASSEMBLAGE; FOSSIL RECORD; FRASNIAN; LIFE HISTORY; ORDOVICIAN; PALEOENVIRONMENT; PERMIAN-TRIASSIC BOUNDARY; TAXONOMY;

TRACHEOPHYTA;

EID: 84898775582     PISSN: 09544879     EISSN: 13653121     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/ter.12086     Document Type: Article

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