Taxonomy and classification of some new early Devonian cryptospores from England

Special Papers in Palaeontology

Volumn 55, Issue , 1996, Pages 7-40

  Richardson, John B ^a  

^a DEPARTMENT OF LIFE SCIENCES   (United Kingdom)

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