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Nitellites

Genus Nitellites Horn Stockholm Contr. Geol., 1(1): 12. 30 Sep 1957
Name
Nitellites
Rank
Genus
Authors (Pub.)
Horn af Rantzien H.  
Publication
Nitellaceous Charophyte gyrogonites in the Rajmahal Series, Upper Gondwana, of India, with notes on the flora and stratigraphy [1957/9]
Journal
Stockholm contributions in geology
Volume
1
Issue
1
Page number
12
Year
1957
Parent Taxon
[Family] Characeae
Fossil Status
gyrogonites
Type
Nitellites sahnii
Diagnosis
Gyrogonites uncalcified and of the charoid-nitellaceous subtype, reminiscent in size, shape, and type of the sporostine membrane of the oosporangia of the recent genus 'Nitella; their coronular structure and other diagnostic extra-fruital characteristics unknown and, hence, they cannot be referred to the living genus with certaintv.
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