Affinities and architecture of Devonian trunks of Prototaxites loganii

Mycologia

Volumn 106, Issue 6, 2014, Pages 1143-1158

  Retallack, G J ^a   Landing, Ed ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OREGON   (United States)

^b NEW YORK STATE MUSEUM   (United States)

^c International Research Institute for Climate and Society   (United States)

Author keywords

Chlorophyta; Devonian; Glomeromycota; Lichen; New York; Prototaxites

Indexed keywords

ALGA; COAL MINE; DEVONIAN; DIKE; FOSSIL RECORD; FRUITING; LICHEN; LIVERWORT; PALEOBOTANY; PLANT ARCHITECTURE; SAPROTROPHY; VASCULAR PLANT;

NEW YORK [UNITED STATES]; UNITED STATES;

CHLOROPHYTA; GLOMEROMYCOTA;

BASIDIOMYCETES; CLASSIFICATION; FOSSIL; FUNGUS; GLOMEROMYCOTA; GREEN ALGA; LICHEN (ORGANISM); LIVERWORT; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

BASIDIOMYCOTA; CHLOROPHYTA; FOSSILS; FUNGI; GLOMEROMYCOTA; HEPATOPHYTA; LICHENS;

EID: 84915745810     PISSN: 00275514     EISSN: 15572536     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3852/13-390     Document Type: Article

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