Records of Cooksonia-type sporangia from late Wenlock strata in Ireland

1980/09/01 by D. Edwards, Deborah Edwards, John Feehan +1 · 6 citations
Agricultural and Biological Sciences · Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology · Earth and Planetary Sciences · #Biology #Carboniferous #Devonian #Ecology #Flora (microbiology) #Fossil Record #Genus #Geology #Paleontology #Paleontology and Stratigraphy of Fossils #Plant Diversity and Evolution #Plant and Fungal Species Descriptions #Sporangium #Structural basin #Type (biology) #Type locality

paper · doi:10.1038/287041a0

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