Plant and animal cuticle remains from the Lower Devonian of southern Poland and their palaeoenvironmental significance

Lethaia

Volumn 44, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 397-409

  Filipiak, Pawel ^a   Zatoń, Michal ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SILESIA   (Poland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTHROPOD; DEVONIAN; ENVIRONMENTAL CONDITIONS; FOSSIL ASSEMBLAGE; MIOSPORE; PALEOENVIRONMENT; PALYNOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PLANT; SILESIAN; STOMATA;

POLAND;

ACRITARCHA; ANIMALIA; ARTHROPODA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); COSMOCHLAINA; EMBRYOPHYTA; EURYPTERIDA; MARCHANTIOPHYTA; PRAGIA; SCORPIONES; TRACHEOPHYTA;

EID: 79960973846     PISSN: 00241164     EISSN: 15023931     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1502-3931.2010.00251.x     Document Type: Article

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