Systematics, ontogeny, and phylogenetic implications of exceptional anatomically preserved cycadophyte leaves from the Middle Jurassic of Bearreraig Bay, Skye, Northwest Scotland

Botanical Review

Volumn 70, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 105-120

  Dower, Beatrice L ^a   Bateman, Richard M ^b   Stevenson, Dennis W M ^c  

^a Land Use Consultants   (United Kingdom)

^b DEPARTMENT OF LIFE SCIENCES   (United Kingdom)

^c NEW YORK BOTANICAL GARDEN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CYCADALES; CYCADEOIDALES; CYCADOPHYTA; CYCAS; MACROZAMIA; NILSSONIA; PTILOPHYLLUM;

EID: 33748711016     PISSN: 00068101     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1663/0006-8101(2004)070[0105:SOAPIO]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Review

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