Late Ordovician (Katian) spores in Sweden: Oldest land plant remains from Baltica

GFF

Volumn 136, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 16-21

  Badawy, Ahmed Salah ^a   Mehlqvist, Kristina ^b   Vajda, Vivi ^b   Ahlberg, Per ^b   Calner, Mikael ^b  

^a Lund University ^*  (Denmark)

^b LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Ordovician; palynology; R st nga 1 drillcore; Silurian; Sk ne; stratigraphy; Sweden; thermal alteration index

Indexed keywords

ACRITARCH; BIOSTRATIGRAPHY; MARINE ECOSYSTEM; MICROFOSSIL; MUDSTONE; ORDOVICIAN-SILURIAN BOUNDARY; PALYNOLOGY; SUCCESSION;

BALTIC REGION; SWEDEN;

ACRITARCHA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CHITINOZOA; DICELLOGRAPTUS; EMBRYOPHYTA; ROSTANGA; TETRAHEDRALETES; TETRAHEDRALETES MEDINENSIS;

EID: 84901195198     PISSN: 11035897     EISSN: 20000863     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/11035897.2014.899266     Document Type: Article

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