Angiosperm-like pollen and Afropollis from the middle triassic (Anisian) of the Germanic basin (Northern Switzerland)

Frontiers in Plant Science

Volumn 4, Issue OCT, 2013, Pages

  Hochuli, Peter A ^a   Feist Burkhardt, Susanne ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b Dr Susanne Feist Burkhardt Geological Consulting and Services   (Germany)

Author keywords

Afropollis; Angiosperm stem group; Angiosperm like pollen; Confocal laser scanning microscopy; Middle triassic

Indexed keywords

EID: 84893385425     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1664462X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fpls.2013.00344     Document Type: Article

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