Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of contributors
- Introduction to the 2017 edition
- 1 The Australian fossil plant record: an introduction
- 2 Maps of late Mesozoic-Cenozoic Gondwana break-up: some palaeogeographical implications
- 3 The background: 144 million years of Australian palaeoclimate and palaeogeography
- 4 Palaeobotanical evidence for Tertiary climates
- 5 Landscapes of Australia: their nature and evolution
- 6 Patterns in the history of Australia's mammals and inferences about palaeohabitats
- 7 Australian Tertiary phytogeography: evidence from palynology
- 8 Cretaceous vegetation: the microfossil record
- 9 Cretaceous vegetation: the macrofossil record
- 10 Early Tertiary vegetation: evidence from spores and pollen
- 11 The early Tertiary macrofloras of continental Australia
- 12 Cenozoic vegetation in Tasmania: macrofossil evidence
- 13 The Neogene: a period of transition
- 14 The Oligo-Miocene coal floras of southeastern Australia
- 15 Quaternary vegetation
- 16 The history of selected Australian taxa
- Taxonomic index
- General index
List of contributors
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Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of contributors
- Introduction to the 2017 edition
- 1 The Australian fossil plant record: an introduction
- 2 Maps of late Mesozoic-Cenozoic Gondwana break-up: some palaeogeographical implications
- 3 The background: 144 million years of Australian palaeoclimate and palaeogeography
- 4 Palaeobotanical evidence for Tertiary climates
- 5 Landscapes of Australia: their nature and evolution
- 6 Patterns in the history of Australia's mammals and inferences about palaeohabitats
- 7 Australian Tertiary phytogeography: evidence from palynology
- 8 Cretaceous vegetation: the microfossil record
- 9 Cretaceous vegetation: the macrofossil record
- 10 Early Tertiary vegetation: evidence from spores and pollen
- 11 The early Tertiary macrofloras of continental Australia
- 12 Cenozoic vegetation in Tasmania: macrofossil evidence
- 13 The Neogene: a period of transition
- 14 The Oligo-Miocene coal floras of southeastern Australia
- 15 Quaternary vegetation
- 16 The history of selected Australian taxa
- Taxonomic index
- General index
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- History of the Australian VegetationCretaceous to Recent, pp. vii - viiiPublisher: The University of Adelaide PressPrint publication year: 2017