Microconchid encrusters colonizing land plants: The earliest North American record from the Early Devonian of Wyoming, USA

Lethaia

Volumn 45, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 490-494

  Caruso, Joseph A ^a   Tomescu, Alexandru M F ^a  

^a HUMBOLDT STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COLONIZATION; DEVONIAN; FOSSIL; FRESHWATER ENVIRONMENT; PLANT; STEM;

UNITED STATES; WYOMING;

DREPANOPHYCUS; EMBRYOPHYTA; TRACHEOPHYTA;

EID: 84866446335     PISSN: 00241164     EISSN: 15023931     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1502-3931.2012.00305.x     Document Type: Article

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