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Kimuriella
Genus Kimuriella Pott, Takimoto Palaeontol. Res., 26(2): 162. 1 Apr 2022
- Name
- Kimuriella
- Rank
- Genus
- Authors (Pub.)
- Pott C.
Takimoto H.
- Publication
- Kimuriella gen. nov. (Bennettitales), a whole-plant bennettite from the Oxfordian (Upper Jurassic) Tochikubo Formation of Shidazawa, Minamisōma, Fukushima Prefecture, Northeast Japan [2022/4]
- Journal
- Palaeontological Research
- Volume
- 26
- Issue
- 2
- Page number
- 162
- Year
- 2022
- Parent Taxon
- [Order] Williamsoniales
- Fossil Status
- leafy twigs (with fructification)
- Type
- Kimuriella densifolia
- Diagnosis
- Woody plants with predominantly sympodially branched (or divaricate) axes with persistent leaf bases below reproductive organs; petiolate leaves of
the Zamites type, shed as a whole, spirally attached below flowers; dichasial inflorescence, main axis terminating in a single flower; microsporangiate and ovuliferous flowers separate, unisexual; gynoecium elongate-ovate, surrounded by two whorls of slender, elongate-lanceolate bracts; floral axis projecting through the gynoecium, corona present; receptacle bearing a tightly packed array of elongate oval ovules separated by sterile interseminal
scales; assumed conspecific microsporangiate flower cup-shaped, consisting of basally fused lobes carrying appendices (microsporangia) on adaxial side in two rows along a median line; lobes triangulate.
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