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Late Cenozoic Grasses

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Contents

Abstract

Introduction

Materials and Methods

Herbarium Studies

Field Studies

Laboratory Methods

Scanning Electron Microscopy

Light Microscopy

Geology

The Ogallala Formation in Central North America

Tertiary Deposits in Ellis County, Kansas

Correlations and Age of Deposits

Biostratigraphy

Vertebrate Faunas in Ellis County

Floral Zones in High Plains Tertiary Deposits

Floral Zones in Ellis and Rooks Counties, Kansas

Paleoecology and Paleoclimatology

Origin of Treeless Grasslands

Systematic Paleontology

Scanning Electron Microscopy

Significance of Scanning Electron and Light Microscopy Studies to the Phylogeny of Fossil and Living Gramineae

Systematic Descriptions

Gramineae

Cyperaceae

Ulmaceae

Boraginaceae

Acknowledgments

References

Appendix

Plates


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