The sub-arborescent lycopsid genus Polysporia Newberry and its spores from the Pennsylvanian (Bolsovian-Stephanian B) continental basins of the Czech Republic

Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology

Volumn 152, Issue 3-4, 2008, Pages 176-199

  Bek, Jiří ^a   Drábková, Jana ^b   Dašková, Jiřina ^a   Libertín, Milan ^c  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY   (Czech Republic)

^b CZECH GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (Czech Republic)

^c DEPARTMENT OF ENTOMOLOGY   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

Carboniferous; Chaloneria; Endosporites; Expansisporites; in situ spores; Polysporia; Triletisporites; Valvisisporites

Indexed keywords

CARBONIFEROUS; CLASSIFICATION; GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION; IDENTIFICATION METHOD; PENNSYLVANIAN; SPORE; VASCULAR PLANT;

BOHEMIA; CENTRAL EUROPE; CZECH REPUBLIC; EURASIA; EUROPE; KLADNO-RAKOVNIK BASIN; UNITED KINGDOM; WESTERN EUROPE;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CHALONERIA; LYCOPODIOPSIDA;

EID: 55549105044     PISSN: 00346667     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.revpalbo.2008.05.002     Document Type: Article

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