Dispersed lycopsid cuticles from the Mississippian of Chemnitz (Saxony, Germany), and their implications for the affinity of the putative earliest conifer and for lycopsid palaeoecology

Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology

Volumn 167, Issue 1-2, 2011, Pages 10-15

  Hübers, Maren ^a   Bomfleur, Benjamin ^b   Kerp, Hans ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MÜNSTER   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS   (United States)

Author keywords

Cuticular analysis; Fossil preservation; Stomata; Swillingtonia; Visean

Indexed keywords

CONIFEROUS TREE; FOSSIL RECORD; LEAF; MISSISSIPPIAN; NEW RECORD; ORNAMENTATION; PALEOBOTANY; PALEOECOLOGY; PALEOZOIC; PRESERVATION; STOMATA;

GERMANY; SAXONY;

CONIFEROPHYTA; LYCOPODIOPSIDA;

EID: 80052034513     PISSN: 00346667     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.revpalbo.2011.07.003     Document Type: Article

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