New permineralized flora and trilobites from the mid tournaisian (Early Carboniferous) Ruxton Formation, Clarke River Basin, north-east Australia

Palaeontology

Volumn 50, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 223-243

  Galtier, Jean ^a   Feist, Raimund ^b   Talent, John A ^c   Meyer Berthaud, Brigitte ^a  

^a UMR AMAP   (France)

^b INSTITUT DES SCIENCES DE L EVOLUTION   (France)

^c MACQUARIE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Australia; Early Carboniferous; Plants; Queensland; Ruxtonia gen. nov.; Tournaisian; Trilobites

Indexed keywords

FLORA; FOSSIL ASSEMBLAGE; PLANT; SILTSTONE; TOURNAISIAN; TRILOBITE;

AUSTRALASIA; AUSTRALIA; QUEENSLAND;

CLADOXYLALES; FILICOPHYTA; LYCOPODIOPSIDA; SPERMATOPHYTA; TRILOBITOMORPHA; TRISTICHIA;

EID: 33846083716     PISSN: 00310239     EISSN: 14754983     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1475-4983.2006.00609.x     Document Type: Article

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