Microalgae from the Lower Devonian Rhynie chert: A new Cymatiosphaera

Zitteliana Reihe A: Mitteilungen der Bayerischen Staatssammlung fur Palaontologie und Geologie

Volumn 54, Issue , 2014, Pages 165-169

  Kustatscher, Evelyn ^a,b   Dotzler, Nora ^b   Taylor, Thomas N ^c   Krings, Michael ^b,c  

^a Naturmuseum Bozen   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS   (United States)

Author keywords

Green algae; Phycoma; Prasinophytes; Pyramimonadales

Indexed keywords

CHERT; DEVONIAN; FOSSIL; GREEN ALGA; MICROALGA; POND;

ABERDEENSHIRE; RHYNIE; SCOTLAND; UNITED KINGDOM;

ANIMALIA; CHLOROPHYTA; CYMATIOSPHAERA; EMBRYOPHYTA; PRASINOPHYCEAE; PYRAMIMONADALES; TRACHEOPHYTA;

EID: 84921531855     PISSN: 1612412X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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