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Title The Origins of angiosperms and their biological consequences / edited by Else Marie Friis, William G. Chaloner, and Peter R. Crane.

Imprint Cambridge [England] ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1989, c1987.

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 Moore Stacks  QE980 .O73 1989    Available  ---
Edition 1st paperback ed.
Description x, 358 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Note "Most of the contributions were presented at a symposium held during the Third International Congress of Systematic and Evolutionary Biology at the University of Sussex, Brighton, England, in August 1985"--Pref.
Bibliography Includes bibliographies and index.
Contents Introduction to angiosperms / E.M. Friis, W.G. Chaloner, and P.R. Crane -- The origin of angiosperms / J.A. Doyle and M.J. Donoghue -- Global palaeogeography and palaeoclimate of the Late Cretaceous and Early Tertiary / Judith Totman Parrish -- Mid-Cretaceous to Early Tertiary vegetation and climate / G.R. Upchurch, Jr. and J.A. Wolfe -- Vegetational consequences of angiosperm diversification / P.R. Crane -- Time of appearance of floral features / E.M. Friis and W.L. Crepet
The evolution of insect pollination in angiosperms / W.L. Crepet and E.M. Friis -- Interactions of angiosperms and herbivorous tetrapods through time / S.L. Wing and B.H. Tiffney -- Dinosaurs and land plants / M.J. Coe ... [et al.] -- Vegetational and mammalian faunal changes in the Early Tertiary of southern England / M.E. Collinson and J.J. Hooker.
Subject Angiosperms, Fossil -- Congresses.
Angiosperms, Fossil.
Angiosperms -- Congresses.
Angiosperms.
Paleontology -- Cretaceous -- Congresses.
Paleontology.
Chronological Term Cretaceous
Subject Paleontology -- Tertiary -- Congresses.
Chronological Term Tertiary
Genre/Form Conference papers and proceedings.
Conference papers and proceedings.
Added Author Friis, Else Marie.
Chaloner, W. G. (William Gilbert)
Crane, Peter R.
International Congress of Systematic and Evolutionary Biology (3rd : 1985 : University of Sussex)
ISBN 052131173X paperback