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Article: In situ stems: preservation states and growth habits of the Pennsylvanian (Carboniferous) calamitaleans based upon new studies of Calamites Sternberg, 1820 in the Duckmantian at Brymbo, North Wales, UK

Publication: Palaeontology
Volume: 57
Part: 1
Publication Date: January 2014
Page(s): 21 – 36
Author(s): <p>Barry A. Thomas</p>
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THOMAS, B. A. 2014. In situ stems: preservation states and growth habits of the Pennsylvanian (Carboniferous) calamitaleans based upon new studies of Calamites Sternberg, 1820 in the Duckmantian at Brymbo, North Wales, UK. Palaeontology, 57, 1, 21–36, doi: 10.1111/pala.12045

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  • Barry A. Thomas - Institute of Biological, Environmental and Rural Sciences, Aberystwyth University, Aberystwyth, Ceredigion, UK. (email: bat@aber.ac.uk)

Publication History

  • Issue published online: 6 JAN 2014
  • Article first published online: 7 MAY 2013
  • Manuscript Accepted: 19 DEC 2012
  • Manuscript Received: 31 JUL 2012

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