Late palaeozoic foliage from china displays affinities to cycadales rather than to bennettitales necessitating a re-evaluation of the palaeozoic pterophyllum species

Acta Palaeontologica Polonica

Volumn 55, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 157-168

  Pott, Christian ^a   McLoughlin, Stephen ^a   Lindström, Anna ^a  

^a SWEDISH MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Bennettitales; Carboniferous; China; Cuticle analysis; Cycadales; Epidermal anatomy; Permian; Pseudoctenis; Pterophyllum

Indexed keywords

ANATOMY; FISH; FOLIAGE; FOSSIL; LEAF; PALEOZOIC; STOMATA;

CHINA; KOREA;

CYCADALES; CYCADEOIDALES; CYCADOPSIDA; PSEUDOCTENIS; PTEROPHYLLUM;

EID: 77949549597     PISSN: 05677920     EISSN: 17322421     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4202/app.2009.0070     Document Type: Article

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