Nyssa arctica

Nyssa arctica Heer Philos. Trans. Roy. Soc. London, 159(2): 477. 1869

Name: Nyssa arctica
Rank: Species
Generic Name: [Genus] Nyssa
Authors (Pub.): von Heer O.
Publication: Contributions to the fossil flora of North Greenland, being a description of the plants collected by Mr. Edward Whymper during the Summer of 1867 [1869]
Journal: Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London
Volume: 159
Issue: 2
Page number: 477
Year: 1869
Fossil Status: fruits
Stratigraphy: Paleocene
Location: Atanekerdluk = Atanikerdluk, Southern Nugssuaq Peninsula, Greenland
Paleoregion: America (North - Greenland)
Designated by: Iljinsk., in Takht. Iskop. Tsvetk. Rast. SSSR ed. 1974, 1: 124. 31 Mar 1975
Repository: Natural History Museum, London, U.K.
Repository Number: V.11319
Num: pl. 43, Fig. 12c
Pub.: Flora fossilis arctica [1868/3]
Num: 53: 13
Pub.: Nyssidium Heer [1975/3]
Repository: Naturhistoriska riksmuseet, Stockholm, Sweden
Repository Number: not specified
Num: 43: 12c; 50: 5-7
Pub.: Contributions to the fossil flora of North Greenland, being a description of the plants collected by Mr. Edward Whymper during the Summer of 1867 [1869]

Nomenclatural synonyms (basionyms)

Species

Carpolithes arcticus

Jenkinsella arctica

Nyssidium arcticum

Trochodendrocarpus arcticus

Doweld Alexander at: 01/12/2020 18:13

Crane (in Bot. J. Linn. Soc. 89: 211. 1984) designated/cited a different lectotype: "Nyssa arctica Heer: 1869, pl. 50, fig. 6". Nomenclaturally inadmissible.
Doweld Alexander at: 01/12/2020 17:55

Krassilov (in Paleontol. J. 29(1A): 88. 1995) inadmissibly designated a different type ['neotype'] - No. 563-221 (Institute of Biology and Soil Science, Russian Academy of Sciences, Vladivostok, Russian Federation).

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