Ultrastructure of lower paleozoic dyads from southern Ohio II: Dyadospora murusattenuata, functional and evolutionary considerations

Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology

Volumn 97, Issue 1-2, 1997, Pages 1-8

  Taylor, Wilson A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN EAU CLAIRE   (United States)

Author keywords

Bryophytes; Lower Silurian; Ordovician; Palynomorphs; Plant spores; Silurian; Spores; Upper Ordovician

Indexed keywords

CRYPTOSPORE; DYADOSPORA MURUSATTENUATA; EVOLUTION; PALAEOZOIC; PHYLOGENY; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); BRYOPHYTA; BRYOPHYTES; DYADOSPORA MURUSATTENUATA; EMBRYOPHYTA;

EID: 0030804058     PISSN: 00346667     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0034-6667(96)00068-1     Document Type: Article

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