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Grovesichara

Genus Grovesichara Horn Stockholm Contr. Geol., 4(2): 123. 20 Oct 1959
Name
Grovesichara
Rank
Genus
Authors (Pub.)
Horn af Rantzien H.  
Publication
Morphological types and organ-genera of Tertiary charophyte fructifications [1959/10]
Journal
Stockholm contributions in geology
Volume
4
Issue
2
Page number
123
Year
1959
Parent Taxon
[Family] Characeae
Fossil Status
gyrogonites
Type
Grovesichara distorta
Diagnosis
Charophyte fructifications of brevicharoid type with limeshells of prolate spheroidal to subprolate and ellipsoidal shape, apical poles unusually heavily calcified, protruding to rounded or subtruncate, lime spirals few, broad, but variable in width, of acute equatorial angle, and not narrowed in the apical periphery.

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