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Cordaitanthus diversiflorus
Cordaitanthus diversiflorus Crookall Mem. Geol. Gr. Brit., Sect. Palaeontol., 4(6): 830. Feb 1970
- Name
- Cordaitanthus diversiflorus
- Rank
- Species
- Generic Name
- [Genus] Cordaitanthus
- Authors (Pub.)
- Crookall R.
- Publication
- Fossil plants of the Carboniferous rocks of Great Britain [1970/2]
- Journal
- Memoirs of the Geological Survey of Great Britain
- Volume
- 4
- Issue
- 6
- Page number
- 830
- Year
- 1970
- Fossil Status
- fructifications (female)
- Stratigraphy
- Bashkirian
- Strat. comment
- Westphalian A
- Location
- Bent Colliery, near Bothwell, Lanarkshire, U.K.
- Paleoregion
- Laurussia (Avalonia)
Data for Holotypus
- Repository
- Royal Scottish Museum, Edinburgh, U.K.
- Repository Number
- 1957.1.7829
- Diagnosis
- Inflorescence with stout· lo~udi®ll.Y-s.tri.at~9 -"-~xjs bearing two opposite rows of alternate 'catkins' .• Those on the lower portion of the axis have a small Carpolithes-like ovoid seed about 4·5 mm. long and 2 mm. broad, subtended by a single narrow bract at least 9 mm. long; upper 'catkins' 9 mm. long and about 2 mm. broad, a;pparently composed of a small number of narrow bracts whose basal portions form a close bud but whose upper ends are free and slightly spreading.
