The earliest records of internally stratified cyanobacterial and algal lichens from the Lower Devonian of the Welsh Borderland

New Phytologist

Volumn 197, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 264-275

  Honegger, Rosmarie ^a   Edwards, Dianne ^b   Axe, Lindsey ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Charcoalification; Chlorolichenomycites salopensis; Cyanolichenomycites devonicus; Fossil lichen; Fossil Nostoc; Heteromerous lichen; Lochkovian strata; Pycnidial conidioma

Indexed keywords

ANATOMY; BIOLOGICAL CHARACTERISTICS; CHARCOAL; CYANOBACTERIUM; DEVONIAN; FOSSIL RECORD; GREEN ALGA; LICHEN; MORPHOLOGY; NUTRITION; PALEOECOLOGY; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; SPORE;

ARTICLE; ASCOMYCETES; CELL WALL; CLASSIFICATION; CYANOBACTERIUM; CYTOLOGY; EVOLUTION; FOSSIL; FUNGUS HYPHAE; FUNGUS SPORE; GREEN ALGA; LICHEN (ORGANISM); PHYLOGENY; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; SYMBIOSIS; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; ULTRASTRUCTURE; UNITED KINGDOM;

ASCOMYCOTA; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; CELL WALL; CHLOROPHYTA; CYANOBACTERIA; FOSSILS; HYPHAE; LICHENS; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, SCANNING; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, TRANSMISSION; PHYLOGENY; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; SPORES, FUNGAL; SYMBIOSIS; WALES;

UNITED KINGDOM; WALES;

ALGAE; ASCOMYCOTA; CYANOBACTERIA; NOSTOC; PEZIZOMYCOTINA; SPONGIOPHYTON;

EID: 84870218969     PISSN: 0028646X     EISSN: 14698137     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/nph.12009     Document Type: Article

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