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Sea cows and sea grasses

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  08 February 2016

Daryl P. Domning
Daryl P. Domning*
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Department of Anatomy, Howard University, Washington, DC 20059
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The review of current developments in paleobotany by Knoll and Rothwell (1981) prompts some supplementary observations on the state of marine paleobotany and, more generally, the problem of investigating groups with a poor fossil record. The marine angiosperms and the larger noncalcareous algae are such groups, being represented by very few fossils widely scattered in time and space (den Hartog 1970; Parker and Dawson 1965). Tropical freshwater macrophytes are likewise poorly known as fossils (Sculthorpe 1967).

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Paleobiology , Volume 7 , Issue 4 , Fall 1981 , pp. 417 - 420
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Copyright © The Paleontological Society 

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