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Isoetites madygensis
Isoetites madygensis Moisan, S. Voigt Rev. Palaeobot. Palynol., 192: 57. 4 Jan 2013
- Name
- Isoetites madygensis
- Rank
- Species
- Generic Name
- [Genus] Isoetites
- Authors (Pub.)
- Moisan P.
Voigt S.
- Publication
- Lycopsids from the Madygen Lagerstätte (Middle to Late Triassic, Kyrgyzstan, Central Asia) [2013/1]
- Journal
- Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology
- Volume
- 192
- Page number
- 57
- Year
- 2013
- Parent Taxon
- [Genus] Isoetites
- Fossil Status
- stems (with reproductive organs)
- Stratigraphy
- Ladinian
- Strat. comment
- Carnian
- Location
- Madygen, Kyrgyzstan
- Paleoregion
- Eurasia (Central Asia)
Data for Holotypus
- Repository
- Technische Universität Bergakademie Freiberg, Geologisches Institut, Freiberg, Germany
- Repository Number
- FG 596/X/54
- Diagnosis
- Corm very short, wide, unlobed, bearing spirally arranged sterile leaves and sporophylls. Sporophylls and sterile leaves ovate, lanceolate. Ligulate sporophylls with a basal and ellipsoid-ovate sporangium. Sterile leaves with air channels and a thin midvein. Normal epidermal cells of sporophylls and sterile leaves more or less rectangular, slightly elongate, aligned in longitudinal rows; cells surrounding the sporangium isodiametric (pentagonal) and rectangular. Stomata and papillae absent.
