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Appomattoxia minuta
Appomattoxia minuta Friis, P.R. Crane, K.R. Pedersen Foss. Impr., 75(2): 190. 25 Nov 2019
- Name
- Appomattoxia minuta
- Rank
- Species
- Generic Name
- [Genus] Appomattoxia
- Authors (Pub.)
- Friis E. M.
Crane P. R.
Pedersen K. R.
- Publication
- The Early Cretaceous mesofossil flora of Torres Vedras (NE of Forte da Forca), Portugal: a palaeofloristic analysis of an early angiosperm community [2019/11]
- Journal
- Fossil Imprint
- Volume
- 75
- Issue
- 2
- Page number
- 190
- Year
- 2019
- Fossil Status
- fruits
- Stratigraphy
- Barremian
- Strat. comment
- Lower member of the Almargem Formation
- Location
- Torres Vedras, NE of Forte de Forca, Portugal (39°06′13″ N, 9°14′47″ W).
- Paleoregion
- Eurasia (Europe)
Data for Holotypus
- Repository
- Naturhistoriska riksmuseet, Stockholm, Sweden
- Repository Number
- S136786
Data for Paratypus
- Repository
- Naturhistoriska riksmuseet, Stockholm, Sweden
- Repository Number
- S105022 (Torres Vedras
sample 43); S136787, S136788, S148010 (Torres Vedras
sample 44).
- Diagnosis
- Fruits minute, narrowly elliptical to ovate in outline, borne on a short oblique stalk. Outer
epidermal cells of fruit wall large, each bearing a central
long and narrow trichome that is only slightly recurved
at the tip. Stigma sessile, indistinct without trichomes.
Pollen grains circular to elliptical in outline, monocolpate
with short colpus. Exine tectate, irregularly verrucate and
microechinate.
