Occurrence of whorled organotaxis in the cladoxylopsid Pietzschia polyupsilon Read and Campbell (Lower Carboniferous, USA)

Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology

Volumn 124, Issue 1-2, 2003, Pages 29-49

  Soria, Aude ^a   Meyer Berthaud, Brigitte ^a  

^a CIRAD   (France)

Author keywords

Cladoxylopsida; Early Mississippian; Megafossil; North America; USA

Indexed keywords

CARBONIFEROUS; MORPHOLOGY; PALEOBOTANY; PHYLOGENETICS; VASCULAR PLANT;

UNITED STATES;

CLADOXYLOPSIDA; SPHENOPSIDA;

EID: 0037386941     PISSN: 00346667     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0034-6667(02)00246-4     Document Type: Article

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