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Svalbardia scotica
Svalbardia scotica Chaloner Rev. Palaeobot. Palynol., 14(1-2): 57. 8 Aug 1972
- Name
- Svalbardia scotica
- Rank
- Species
- Generic Name
- [Genus] Svalbardia
- Authors (Pub.)
- Chaloner W. G.
- Publication
- Devonian plants from Fair Isle, Scotland [1972/8]
- Journal
- Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology
- Volume
- 14
- Issue
- 1-2
- Page number
- 57
- Year
- 1972
- Fossil Status
- leafy stems
- Stratigraphy
- Middle Devonian
- Location
- north side of Stogar, Bu Ness, Fair Island, Scotland, U.K.
- Paleoregion
- Laurussia (Avalonia)
Data for Holotypus
- Repository
- Royal Scottish Museum, Edinburgh, U.K.
- Repository Number
- 1969.40.46
- Diagnosis
- Branching, slightly striated axial systems with primary axes up to 7.5 ram.
diameter, bearing (spirally arranged?) subsidiary axes on which dichotomously divided wedge-shaped leaves are borne in apparently spiral arrangement. Leaves up to 2 cm in length, deeply divided into at least four lobes at the apex, with more or less parallel venation; broadest part of any one level of the lamina, up to 3 mm, there bearing up to eight striations (veins?).
