Mantled fungal reproductive units in land plant tissue from the lower devonian rhynie chert

Bulletin of Geosciences

Volumn 90, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 1-6

  Krings, Michael ^a   Taylor, Thomas N ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS   (United States)

Author keywords

Biodiversity; Fossil fungi; Hyphal investment; Reproductive biology

Indexed keywords

CHERT; DEVONIAN; FOSSIL RECORD; FUNGUS; PALEOBIOGEOGRAPHY; PALEONTOLOGY; REPRODUCTIVE BIOLOGY;

ABERDEENSHIRE; RHYNIE; SCOTLAND; UNITED KINGDOM;

EMBRYOPHYTA; FUNGI;

EID: 84921834523     PISSN: 12141119     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3140/bull.geosci.1519     Document Type: Article

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