Diversity and ontogeny of Pitus tree-trunks in the early Mississippian rocks of the Isle of Bute, Scotland: The importance of sample size and quantitative analysis for fossil wood systematics

Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology

Volumn 166, Issue 3-4, 2011, Pages 202-212

  Henderson, Elsa ^a   Falcon Lang, Howard J ^b  

^a Ascog Isle of Bute   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Carboniferous; Fossil wood; Morphometrics; Ontogeny; Pteridosperm; Tree rings

Indexed keywords

CONIFEROUS TREE; FACIES; FLOODPLAIN; FOSSIL ASSEMBLAGE; MORPHOMETRY; MORPHOTYPE; ONTOGENY; PALEOBOTANY; PHYLOGENETICS; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SAMPLE PREPARATION; SAMPLING; SERPUKHOVIAN; SPECIMEN BANK; TREE RING; VISEAN; VOLCANIC ERUPTION; WOOD;

ARGYLL AND BUTE; ISLE OF BUTE; SCOTLAND; UNITED KINGDOM;

PITUS;

EID: 79960937464     PISSN: 00346667     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.revpalbo.2011.05.009     Document Type: Article

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