Post-Variscan late Palaeozoic Northern Hemisphere gymnosperms: The onset to the Mesozoic

Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology

Volumn 90, Issue 3-4, 1996, Pages 263-285

  Kerp, Hans ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MÜNSTER   (Germany)

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CARBONIFEROUS; DIVERSITY; EVOLUTION; GYMNOSPERM; MESOZOIC; PALAEOBOTANY; PALAEOZOIC; PERMIAN;

EID: 0029768567     PISSN: 00346667     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0034-6667(95)00087-9     Document Type: Article

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