Contributions to the diversity in cryptogamic covers in the mid-Palaeozoic: Nematothallus revisited

Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society

Volumn 173, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 505-534

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

^a CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Algae; Bryophytes; Cosmochlaina; Embryophytes; Fungi; Lichens; Lochkovian; Prototaxites; Weathering; Welsh Borderland

Indexed keywords

ALGA; BIODIVERSITY; DEVONIAN; FOSSIL RECORD; LICHEN; NEW SPECIES; PALEOZOIC; SILURIAN; SPECIES DIVERSITY; TAXONOMY; THREE-DIMENSIONAL MODELING; WEATHERING;

UNITED KINGDOM;

ALGAE; BRYOPHYTA; BRYOPHYTES; COSMOCHLAINA; EMBRYOPHYTA; FUNGI; SPONGIOPHYTON; TRACHEOPHYTA;

EID: 84888131394     PISSN: 00244074     EISSN: 10958339     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/boj.12119     Document Type: Article

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