Late devonian winged preovules and their implications for the adaptive radiation of early seed plants

Palaeontology

Volumn 40, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 575-595

  Rowe, N P ^a  

^a INSTITUT DES SCIENCES DE L EVOLUTION   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEVONIAN; FAMENNIAN; MORPHOLOGY; PREOVULE; SEED; WARSTEINIA PAPRO;

GERMANY, NORTH RHINE-WESTPHALIA, SAUERLAND;

EID: 0031465305     PISSN: 00310239     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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