The Fayetteville Flora I: Upper Mississippian (middle Chesterian/lower Namurian A) plant assemblages of permineralized and compression remains from Arkansas, USA

Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology

Volumn 132, Issue 1-2, 2004, Pages 79-102

  Dunn, Michael T ^a  

^a CAMERON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

coalified compression; Lycopsida; Mississippian; permineralized; Pteridospermales

Indexed keywords

BLACK SHALE; FLORA; FOSSIL; MINERALIZATION; MISSISSIPPIAN; PALEOBOTANY; PLANT COMMUNITY;

ARKANSAS; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES; WESTERN HEMISPHERE; WORLD;

FILICOPHYTA; LYCOPODIOPSIDA; SPHENOPSIDA;

EID: 7044220851     PISSN: 00346667     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.revpalbo.2004.04.006     Document Type: Article

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