Ultrastructure and affinity of Lower Carboniferous megaspores from the Moscow Basin, Russia

Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology

Volumn 109, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 1-31

  Glasspool, Ian J ^a   Hemsley, Alan R ^b   Scott, Andrew C ^a   Golitsyn, Andrei ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c MOSCOW STATE UNIVERSITY   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

Carboniferous; Lycopsid; Megaspores; Moscow Basin; Systematics; Ultrastructure; Visean

Indexed keywords

LIGNITE; NEW SPECIES; SPORE; ULTRASTRUCTURE; VISEAN;

RUSSIAN FEDERATION;

CANDATOSPORITES; CAUDATOSPORITES; CRASSILAGENICULA; CYTOSPORITES; LAGENICULA; LAGENICULA ACUMINATA; SETOSISPORITES; SUBLAGENICUDA; ZONALESPORITES;

EID: 0034018169     PISSN: 00346667     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0034-6667(99)00042-1     Document Type: Article

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