Spondylostrobus F.Mueller: Operculate fruits of an extinct dicotyledon from the mid-Tertiary of Australia

Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology

Volumn 122, Issue 3-4, 2002, Pages 219-237

  Dettmann, Mary E ^a   Clifford, H Trevor ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^b QUEENSLAND MUSEUM   (Australia)

Author keywords

Anacardiaceae; Burs eraceae; Cornales; Fruit stones; Humiriaceae; Oligocene Miocene; Spondiadeae; Spondylostrobus; Verbenaceae

Indexed keywords

DICOTYLEDON; FRUIT; MORPHOLOGY; TERTIARY;

AUSTRALIA;

ANACARDIACEAE; CORNALES; EUDICOTYLEDONS; HUMIRIACEAE; SPONDYLOSTROBUS; SPONDYLOSTROBUS ROZEFELDSII; SPONDYLOSTROBUS SMYTHII; VERBENACEAE;

EID: 0036857563     PISSN: 00346667     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0034-6667(02)00185-9     Document Type: Article

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