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Prototaxites clevelandensis
Prototaxites clevelandensis Chitaley Rev. Palaeobot. Palynol., 72(3-4): 273. 7 Jul 1992
- Name
- Prototaxites clevelandensis
- Rank
- Species
- Generic Name
- [Genus] Prototaxites
- Authors (Pub.)
- Chitaley S. D.
- Publication
- On the occurrence of Prototaxites in the Cleveland Black Shale of Ohio, USA [1992/7]
- Journal
- Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology
- Volume
- 72
- Issue
- 3-4
- Page number
- 273
- Year
- 1992
- Fossil Status
- thallus
- Stratigraphy
- Famennian
- Location
- Intersection of US Route 1-71 and West 130th Street, Cleveland, Ohio, USA
- Paleoregion
- Laurussia (Laurentia)
Data for Holotypus
- Repository
- Cleveland Museum of Natural History, Cleveland, USA
- Repository Number
- P-4743 CMNH
- Diagnosis
- Specimen permineralized,
pseudoparenchymatous matrix of tubes and filaments;
growth layers and radial spaces absent;
"medullary spots" dark colored, scattered
throughout matrix; tubes 23-40 ixm in diameter,
small and large, in groups of 2-4, many almost
touching each other, the majority running parallel
to axis, sinuous, interlaced, septate, successively
branched, tube wall thick, of two layers, striated,
with longitudinal furrows on inner surface, inner
layer filmy thin. Filaments 2-2.5 ~tm diameter,
thin-walled, septate, branched, interwoven and
growing over the tubes.
