The Middle Devonian plant assemblage from Dechra Aït Abdallah (Central Morocco) revisited

Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology

Volumn 179, Issue , 2012, Pages 44-55

  Prestianni, Cyrille ^a,b   Meyer Berthaud, Brigitte ^a,b   Blanchard, Romain ^a,b,c   Rücklin, Martin ^d   Clément, Gaël ^e   Gerrienne, Philippe ^f  

^a UNIV MONTPELLIER   (France)

^b CNRS   (France)

^c University of Bristol ^*  (France)

^d UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

^e MUSÉUM NATIONAL D'HISTOIRE NATURELLE   (France)

^f UNIVERSITY OF LIÈGE   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Dechra A t Abdallah; Fossil plants; Gondwana; Middle Devonian; Morocco

Indexed keywords

DEVONIAN; FLORISTICS; FOSSIL ASSEMBLAGE; GONDWANA; PALEOBOTANY; PALEOGEOGRAPHY; PHYLOGEOGRAPHY; RECONSTRUCTION; TAPHONOMY; TAXONOMY; TYPE LOCALITY; VASCULAR PLANT;

DECHRA AIT ABDALLAH; MEKNES-TAFILALET; MOROCCO;

ANAPAULIA MOODYI; LECLERCQIA; LYCOPODIOPHYTA; RELLIMIA;

EID: 84860673584     PISSN: 00346667     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.revpalbo.2012.03.011     Document Type: Article

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