ORIGINAL ARTICLE
A new species of leafy calamite stem from the Pennsylvanian (Bolsovian) of the South Wales Coalfield
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Institute of Biological, Environmental and Rural Sciences, Aberystwyth University, Penglais, Aberystwyth,
Ceredigion, SY23 1NP, UK
Submission date: 2020-02-22
Online publication date: 2020-06-29
Publication date: 2020-06-29
Acta Palaeobotanica 2020; 60(1): 207-211
KEYWORDS
ABSTRACT
Large leafy calamite stems are very rare in the fossil record. One such leafy stem is described as
a new species, Calamites cambrensis, from shales above the No 2 Rhondda Seam in the Bolsovian of the South
Wales Coalfield.
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