The Jambi gigantopterids and their place in gigantopterid classification

Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society

Volumn 161, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 302-328

  Booi, Menno ^a,b   Van Waveren, Isabel M ^a   Van Konijnenburg Van Cittert, Johanna H A ^a,b  

^a NATURALIS BIODIVERSITY CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITEIT LEIDEN BRANCH   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Early Permian; Gothanopteris; Mengkarang Formation; Palaeogoniopteris

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL CHARACTERISTICS; FOSSIL; LEAF MORPHOLOGY; PALEOBOTANY; PALEOTROPICAL KINGDOM; PERMIAN; TAXONOMY;

EID: 73149124291     PISSN: 00244074     EISSN: 10958339     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1095-8339.2009.01004.x     Document Type: Article

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