The INTERNATIONAL FOSSIL PLANT NAMES INDEX
Global registry of scientific names of fossil organisms covered by the International Code of Nomenclature for Algae, Fungi, and Plants and the International Code of Zoological Nomenclature © 2014-2024

IDNAME urn:idName:ifpni.org:genus:20B68936-2FAE-4C49-AC28-2F3782B8603D genus
Back

Paracooksonia

Genus Paracooksonia J.L. Morris, D. Edwards, J.B. Richardson, Axe, K.L. Davies Rev. Palaeobot. Palynol., 167(1-2): 54. Sep 2011
Name
Paracooksonia
Rank
Genus
Authors (Pub.)
Morris J. L. Edwards D. Richardson J. B. Axe L. Davies K. L.  
Publication
New plant taxa from the Lower Devonian (Lochkovian) of the Welsh Borderland, with a hypothesis on the relationship between hilate and trilete spore producers [2011/9]
Journal
Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology
Volume
167
Issue
1-2
Page number
54
Year
2011
Fossil Status
sporangia
Diagnosis
Terminal sporangium containing a discoidal mass of trilete monads,±tetrads, enveloped by a single, non-cellular cuticular layer. Spores proximally smooth, with simple triradiate apertural folds, ± interradial papillae and ± further radial folds. Distal surfaces sculptured with microapiculate to microgranulate elements or laevigate. Exospore bilayered.

Please login or register to comment on this