Reassessment of dyads contained in a late Silurian rhyniophytoid sporangium

Special Papers in Palaeontology

Volumn 55, Issue , 1996, Pages 137-145

  Shute, Cedric H ^a   Hemsley, Alan R ^b   Strother, Paul K ^c  

^a DEPARTMENT OF LIFE SCIENCES   (United Kingdom)

^b CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c BOSTON COLLEGE   (United States)

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