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Cordaianthus concinnus
Cordaianthus concinnus Delev. Amer. J. Bot., 40(3): 149. 24 Feb 1953
- Name
- Cordaianthus concinnus
- Rank
- Species
- Generic Name
- [Genus] Cordaianthus
- Authors (Pub.)
- Delevoryas T.
- Publication
- A new male Cordaitean fructification from the Kansas Carboniferous [1953/2]
- Journal
- American Journal of Botany
- Volume
- 40
- Issue
- 3
- Page number
- 149
- Year
- 1953
- Fossil Status
- fructifications (male)
- Stratigraphy
- Moscovian
- Strat. comment
- Desmoinesian
- Location
- Fleming coal, Kansas, USA
- Paleoregion
- Laurussia (Laurentia)
Data for Syntypus
- Repository
- University of Illinois, Urbana, USA
- Repository Number
- Types.-C.B. 739 a(1) bottom, slides 12, 38; C.B. 739 a(3) top, slide 5; C.B. 739 a(3) bottom, slide 9; C.B. 739 e top, slides 1, 2, 13; C.B. 777 i top, slides 3, 7; C.B. 841 b top, slides 1, 7; C.B. 2110 b bottom, slide 6; C.B. 2183 b(2) slide 35.
- Diagnosis
- Inflorescence consisting of an elongate slender axis 1-2 mm. in diameter bearing axillary male cones in two rows; axis fluted along its length. Cones 5-7.5 mm. in length (average 6 mm.), 3 mm. in widest diameter, each consisting of a short axis bearing 25-40 scale-like appendages of which the innermost 5-10 are fertile; fertile appendages ter- minated with usually 6 sporangia fused at the base; sporangia 1 mm. in length and 0.2 mm. in diameter. Pollen grains of the Florinites type measuring 65 X 45,u.
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