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### Author
Platen, Paul Louis (1876-?), German palaeobotanist; student of J.P. Felix at Leipzig.
**Abbreviated name**: *Platen* \[standard form in IPNI: *Platen*\]
#### Herbarium and types
Unknown.
#### Bibliography and biography
Andrews p. 313; Barnhart 3: 91; BM 4: 1583; Ewan ed. 2: 176; LS 37970, suppl. 21908; Tucker 1: 560.
### Publications
##### n.8034. Untersuchungen fossiler Hölzer
**Title**
*Untersuchungen fossiler Hölzer* aus dem Westen der Vereinigten Staaten von Nordamerika. Inaugural-Dissertation zur Erlangung der Doktorwürde bei der Philosophischen Fakultät der Universität Leipzig... Leipzig (Druck von Gressner & Schramm) 1907. Oct.
**Abbreviated title**: *Unters. foss. Hölz.*
**Notes**
*Publ*. 1907 (approved 16 Jul 1907; Bot. Zeit. 26 Jan 1900; Bot. Centralbl. 12 Jan 1909), p. \[i\]-xvi, \[1\]-155, \[156, vita\], *pl. 1-3* with text. *Copy*: USGS. – Also published in Sitzungsb. naturf. Ges. Leipzig 34: 1-164, *pl. 1-3.* 1907 (1909).
*Ref*.: Salfeld, H., Bot. Zeit. 67(2): 136-137. 16 Mai 1909.