Nematophytes from the Lower Devonian of Podolia, Ukraine

Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology

Volumn 224, Issue , 2016, Pages 109-120

  Filipiak, Paweł ^a   Szaniawski, Hubert ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SILESIA   (Poland)

^b INSTITUTE OF PALEOBIOLOGY   (Poland)

Author keywords

Banded tubes; Lower Devonian; Nematasketum; Nematophytes; Phytodebris; Podolia

Indexed keywords

CELLS AND CELL COMPONENTS; DEVONIAN; EXOSKELETON; FOSSIL RECORD; MORPHOLOGY; PLANT COMMUNITY; PRESERVATION; SAPROTROPHY; VITRINITE REFLECTANCE;

PODOLIA; UKRAINE;

FUNGI;

EID: 84949313948     PISSN: 00346667     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.revpalbo.2015.09.005     Document Type: Article

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