Pennsylvanian (mid/late Bolsovian-Asturian) permineralised plant assemblages of the Pennant Sandstone Formation of southern Britain: Systematics and palaeoecology

Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology

Volumn 173, Issue , 2012, Pages 23-45

  Falcon Lang, Howard J ^a,b   Cleal, Christopher J ^c   Pendleton, Janine L ^d   Wellman, Charles H ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MÜNSTER   (Germany)

^c DEPARTMENT OF GEOLOGY   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Braided rivers; Carboniferous; Coal; Fossil wood; Plant palaeoecology; Variscan mountains

Indexed keywords

ALLOCHTHON; BRAIDED RIVER; CALCIFICATION; COAL SEAM; CONGLOMERATE; FACIES; FERN; FOSSIL ASSEMBLAGE; FOSSIL RECORD; FOSSILIZATION; HERCYNIAN OROGENY; MUSEUM; PALEOBOTANY; PALEOECOLOGY; PENNSYLVANIAN; PLANT COMMUNITY; RIVER CHANNEL; SANDSTONE; TAXONOMY;

ENGLAND; UNITED KINGDOM; WARWICKSHIRE;

ARTHROPITYS; CORDAITALES; DADOXYLON; FILICOPHYTA; LEPIDODENDRON; LYCOPODIOPSIDA; MYELOXYLON; SPHENOPSIDA;

EID: 84857666571     PISSN: 00346667     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.revpalbo.2012.01.010     Document Type: Article

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