A Late Devonian isoetalean lycopsid, Otzinachsonia beerboweri, gen. et sp. nov., from north-central Pennsylvania, USA

American Journal of Botany

Volumn 92, Issue 7, 2005, Pages 1131-1140

  Cressler III, Walter L ^a,b   Pfefferkorn, Hermann W ^b  

^a WEST CHESTER UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Catskill Formation; Cormose; Devonian; Famennian; Isoetalean; Lycopsid; Paleozoic; Plantae

Indexed keywords

DEVONIAN; FOSSIL RECORD; NEW SPECIES;

CLINTON COUNTY [PENNSYLVANIA]; NORTH AMERICA; PENNSYLVANIA; UNITED STATES; WESTERN HEMISPHERE; WORLD;

ARCHAEOPTERIS; ISOETALES; LYCOPODIOPSIDA; PLANTAE; RHACOPHYTON;

EID: 21344465428     PISSN: 00029122     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3732/ajb.92.7.1131     Document Type: Article

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