Palaeozoic innovations in the micro- and megafossil plant record: From the earliest plant spores to the earliest seeds

Earth and Life: Global Biodiversity, Extinction Intervals and Biogeographic Perturbations Through Time

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 437-477

  Steemans, Philippe ^a   Petus, Elodie ^a   Breuer, Pierre ^b   Mauller Mendlowicz, Paula ^c   Gerrienne, Philippe ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LIÈGE   (Belgium)

^b SAUDI ARAMCO   (Saudi Arabia)

^c STATE UNIVERSITY OF RIO DE JANEIRO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Cryptospores; Embrophytes; Meso megafossil plants; Propagule dispersion; Spermatophyte adaptive radiation; Trilete spores; Tripapillate forms as biostratigraphic markers

Indexed keywords

EID: 85015167960     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1007/978-90-481-3428-1_13     Document Type: Chapter

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