Paratingia wudensis sp. nov., a whole noeggerathialean plant preserved in an earliest Permian air fall tuff in Inner Mongolia, China

American Journal of Botany

Volumn 96, Issue 9, 2009, Pages 1676-1689

  Wang, Jung ^a   Pfefferkorn, Hermann W ^b   Bek, Jiří ^c  

^a NANJING INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND PALAEONTOLOGY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^c INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

China; Noeggerathiales; Paratingia wudensis sp. nov; Permian; Whole plant reconstruction

Indexed keywords

CARBONIFEROUS; EXTINCTION; LEAF MORPHOLOGY; NEW SPECIES; PEATLAND; PERMIAN; PRESERVATION; RECONSTRUCTION; SPORE; SPOROPHYTE; TUFF; VASCULAR PLANT; VOLCANIC ASH;

ASIA; CHINA; EURASIA; FAR EAST; NEI MONGGOL;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); FILICOPHYTA; NOEGGERATHIALES; PARATINGIA; SPHENOPSIDA;

EID: 70349653966     PISSN: 00029122     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3732/ajb.0800351     Document Type: Article

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