Cryptospores from the Hanadir Shale Member of the Qasim Formation, Ordovician (Darriwilian) of Saudi Arabia: Taxonomy and systematics

Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology

Volumn 212, Issue , 2015, Pages 97-110

  Strother, Paul K ^a   Traverse, Alfred ^b   Vecoli, Marco ^c  

^a BOSTON COLLEGE   (United States)

^b PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c SAUDI ARAMCO   (Saudi Arabia)

Author keywords

Cryptospores; Origin of plants; Paleopalynology; Terrestrialization

Indexed keywords

MICROPALEONTOLOGY; NEW GENUS; ORDOVICIAN; PALYNOLOGY; SHALE; SILURIAN; SPORE; TAXONOMY;

QASIM; SAUDI ARABIA;

BRYOPHYTES; EMBRYOPHYTA;

EID: 84918794946     PISSN: 00346667     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.revpalbo.2014.08.018     Document Type: Article

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