Dating the earliest tetrapods: A catskill palynological problem in Pennsylvania

CFS Courier Forschungsinstitut Senckenberg

Volumn , Issue 241, 2003, Pages 19-29

  Traverse, Alfred ^a  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Catskill Formation; Hyner; Palynology; Red Hill; Spores; Upper Devonian; Upper Famennian

Indexed keywords

AMPHIBIAN; DATING METHOD; DEVONIAN; FISH; PALYNOLOGY;

UNITED STATES;

AMPHIBIA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ENTOVALVA; TETRAPODA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0038418778     PISSN: 03414116     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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