Modern tropical analogs for carboniferous standing forests: Comparison of extinct mesocalamites with extant montrichardia

Historical Biology

Volumn 15, Issue 3, 2001, Pages 135-150

  Pfefferkorn, Herman W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Carboniferous; Coal floras; Evolutionary convergence; Mesocalamites; Montrichardia; Taphonomy; Tropical forests; Vegetative reproduction

Indexed keywords

EID: 22744435087     PISSN: 08912963     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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