New evidence for land plants from the lower Middle Ordovician of Saudi Arabia

Geology

Volumn 24, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 55-58

  Strother, Paul K ^a   Al Hajri, Said ^b   Traverse, Alfred ^c  

^a BOSTON COLLEGE   (United States)

^b SAUDI ARAMCO   (Saudi Arabia)

^c PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACRITARCHS; LAND PLANTS; ORDOVICIAN; SAUDI ARABIA; SPOROPOLLENIN; TERRESTRIAL PLANTS;

GEOLOGY;

CHITIN; CLASSIFICATION; FOSSIL RECORD; LLANVIRNIAN; MACERAL; ORDOVICIAN; PALEOBOTANY; PALEOENVIRONMENT; PALEONTOLOGY; PLANT; SHALE; SPORE; TAXONOMY; TERRESTRIAL ECOSYSTEM; LAND PLANT;

SAUDI ARABIA;

EID: 0029750598     PISSN: 00917613     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/0091-7613(1996)024<0055:NEFLPF>2.3.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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