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Vesicaspora wilsonii
Vesicaspora wilsonii Schemel Amer. Midl. Naturalist, 1951, 46(3): 749. 24 Jan 1952
- Name
- Vesicaspora wilsonii
- Rank
- Species
- Generic Name
- [Genus] Vesicaspora
- Authors (Pub.)
- Schemel M. P.
- Publication
- Small spores of the Mystic Coal of Iowa [1952/1]
- Journal
- American Midland Naturalist
- Annee/Jahrgang
- 1951
- Volume
- 46
- Issue
- 3
- Page number
- 749
- Year
- 1952
- Parent Taxon
- [Genus] Vesicaspora
- Fossil Status
- sporae dispersae
- Stratigraphy
- Moscovian
- Location
- Appanoose and Madison counties, Iowa, USA
- Paleoregion
- Laurussia (Laurentia)
- Diagnosis
- Pollen grains with apparent bilateral symmetry; outline varies greatly with compression, in equatorial view, both bladder and body are ellipsoid in outline, with bladder widest at right angles to the long dimension of the body, in transverse view, the bladder is ellipsoidal with a slight sulcus indentation and the body is triantu'ar in outline; total length, inclusive of bladder, ranges from 40 to 50 microns, width, from 30 to 35 microns, in equatorial view, body length ranges from 25 to 34 microns width, from 13 to 20 microns, in transverse view, body triangular in outline, proximal side varies from 27 to 32 microns in letigth; bladder ornamentation smooth to minutely granulose externally and reticulated iiiternally, reticulae vary between a fraction of a micron to approximately one and one-half microns wide, bars of ret:culae slightly less than one micron thick, ornamentation of bladder conceals ornamentation of body; sulcus area thin and slightly rugose.
