The role of mid-palaeozoic mesofossils in the detection of early bryophytes

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 355, Issue 1398, 2000, Pages 733-755

  Edwards, Dianne ^a  

^a CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Conducting tissues; Cryptospores; Embryophytes; Fossil bryophytes; phylogeny

Indexed keywords

BRYOPHYTE; DEVONIAN; FOSSIL RECORD; PALEOBOTANY; SILURIAN;

BRYOPHYTA;

EID: 0034729745     PISSN: 09628436     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2000.0613     Document Type: Conference Paper

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