Sporangia containing Scylaspora from the Lower Devonian of the Welsh Borderland

Palaeontology

Volumn 42, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 67-81

  Wellman, Charles H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEVONIAN; MORPHOLOGY; PALEOBOTANY; SPORE; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ENTOVALVA; SCYLASPORA;

EID: 0033083765     PISSN: 00310239     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1475-4983.00062     Document Type: Article

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