Systematics and evolutionary significance of some new cryptospores from the Cambrian of eastern Tennessee, USA

Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology

Volumn 227, Issue , 2016, Pages 28-41

  Strother, Paul K ^a  

^a BOSTON COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

Laurentia; Origin of land plants; Palynology; Rogersville Shale; Successive meiosis

Indexed keywords

CAMBRIAN; CELLS AND CELL COMPONENTS; CHAROPHYTE; EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY; FLORA; FOSSIL RECORD; MUDSTONE; PALYNOLOGY; SHALE; SPORE; TAXONOMY; TOPOLOGY; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

TENNESSEE; UNITED STATES;

CHARACEAE; EMBRYOPHYTA; HAPLOMITRIUM; MARCHANTIOPHYTA; SPHAEROCARPALES;

EID: 84960796419     PISSN: 00346667     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.revpalbo.2015.10.006     Document Type: Article

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