Wall ultrastructure in some dispersed megaspores and seed-megaspores from the Middle Devonian of northern Poland

Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology

Volumn 156, Issue 1-2, 2009, Pages 14-33

  Turnau, E ^a   Zavialova, N ^b   Prejbisz, A ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGICAL SCIENCES   (Poland)

^b PALEONTOLOGICAL INSTITUTE   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

Middle Devonian; seed megaspore; wall ultrastructure

Indexed keywords

COMPARATIVE STUDY; DEVONIAN; DISPERSAL; MICROSCOPY; MORPHOLOGY; PALEOBOTANY; PTERIDOPHYTE; SPORE; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

CENTRAL EUROPE; EURASIA; EUROPE; POLAND;

ARCHAEOPTERIDALES; ARCHAEOPTERIS; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CONTAGISPORITES OPTIVUS; GRANDITETRASPORA ZHARKOVAE; LYCOPODIOPSIDA; SPERMATOPHYTA;

EID: 67349170046     PISSN: 00346667     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.revpalbo.2008.07.009     Document Type: Article

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