Microfossils from the lower devonian rhynie chert with suggested affinities to the peronosporomycetes

Journal of Paleontology

Volumn 86, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 358-367

  Krings, Michael ^a,b   Taylor, Thomas N ^b   Taylor, Edith L ^b   Kerp, Hans ^c   Hass, Hagen ^c   Dotzler, Nora ^a   Harper, Carla J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MÜNSTER   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEVONIAN; FOSSIL RECORD; LITTERFALL; MICROBIAL MAT; MICROFOSSIL; MICROPALEONTOLOGY; MORPHOLOGY; ONTOGENY; PALEOECOLOGY; SPECIMEN BANK;

ABERDEENSHIRE; SCOTLAND; UNITED KINGDOM;

OOMYCETES; POLYSPORA;

EID: 84858058085     PISSN: 00223360     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1666/11-087.1     Document Type: Article

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