The Origins of angiosperms and their biological consequences
By: edited by Else Marie Friis, William G. Chaloner, and Peter R. Crane.
Contributors: Friis, Else Marie.; Chaloner, W. G.; Crane, Peter R.; International Congress of Systematic and Evolutionary Biology (3rd : 1985 : University of Sussex)
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 1987
Place of publication: Cambridge, Cambridgeshire; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 358
Subjects: Angiosperms, Fossil -- Congresses; Angiosperms -- Congresses; Paleontology -- Cretaceous -- Congresses; Paleontology -- Tertiary -- Congresses
Notes: Includes bibliographies and index.
"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.
Table of contents: title: Introduction to angiosperms / E.M. Friis, W.G. Chaloner, and P.R. Crane; title: The origin of angiosperms / J.A. Doyle and M.J. Donoghue; title: Global palaeogeography and palaeoclimate of the Late Cretaceous and Early Tertiary / Judith Totman Parrish; title: Mid-Cretaceous to Early Tertiary vegetation and climate / G.R. Upchurch, Jr. and J.A. Wolfe; title: Vegetational consequences of angiosperm diversification / P.R. Crane; title: Time of appearance of floral features / E.M. Friis and W.L. Crepet; title: The evolution of insect pollination in angiosperms / W.L. Crepet and E.M. Friis; title: Interactions of angiosperms and herbivorous tetrapods through time / S.L. Wing and B.H. Tiffney; title: Dinosaurs and land plants / M.J. Coe ... [et al.]; title: Vegetational and mammalian faunal changes in the Early Tertiary of southern England / M.E. Collinson and J.J. Hooker.