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Palaeosorum waipiata
Palaeosorum waipiata U. Kaulf., Conran, Bannister, Mildenh., D.E. Lee New Zealand J. Bot., 2019, (10.1080/0028825X.2018.1560336): 6. 10 Jan 2019
- Name
- Palaeosorum waipiata
- Rank
- Species
- Generic Name
- [Genus] Palaeosorum
- Authors (Pub.)
- Kaulfuss U.
Conran J. G.
Bannister J. M.
Mildenhall D. C.
Lee D. E.
- Publication
- A new Miocene fern (Palaeosorum: Polypodiaceae) from New Zealand bearing in situ spores of Polypodiisporites [2019/1]
- Journal
- New Zealand Journal of Botany
- Annee/Jahrgang
- 2019
- Issue
- 10.1080/0028825X.2018.1560336
- Page number
- 6
- Year
- 2019
- Fossil Status
- foliage (fertile)
- Stratigraphy
- Aquitanian
- Strat. comment
- Waitakian
- Location
- Mining pit in early Miocene-aged Foulden Hills Diatomite at Foulden Maar, near Middlemarch, Otago, New Zealand
- Paleoregion
- Australia (New Zealand)
Data for Holotypus
- Repository
- Geology Museum, University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand
- Repository Number
- Partial frond, 2017 (OU35184a (part) OU35184b (counterpart)
Data for Paratypus
- Repository
- Geology Museum, University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand
- Repository Number
- OU35187a; co-ordinates 16.4 × 98.2, England Finder Reading J35/2; slide reference point (lower left-hand corner of coverslip as seen under the microscope) 02.2 × 93.5; OU35187b; co-ordinates 11.3 × 10
- Diagnosis
- Fronds deeply pinnatifid, sori circular, laminal in single rows, lacking
indusia. Spores monolete, morphologically similar to Polypodiisporites R.Potonié, but
characterised by very small proximal verrucae/granulae around the laesurae and more
rounded verrucae.
