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Cooksonia pertonii apiculispora
Cooksonia pertonii Subspecies apiculispora Fanning, J.B. Richardson, D. Edwards Evol. Trends Pl., 2(1): 23. 1988
- Name
- Cooksonia pertonii apiculispora
- Rank
- Subspecies
- Species
- Cooksonia pertonii
- Authors (Pub.)
- Fanning U.
Richardson J. B.
Edwards D.
- Publication
- Cryptic evolution in an early land plant [1988]
- Journal
- Evolutionary trends in plants
- Volume
- 2
- Issue
- 1
- Page number
- 23
- Year
- 1988
- Fossil Status
- stems (with sporangia)
- Stratigraphy
- Pragian
- Strat. comment
- Gedinnian
- Location
- Clee Hill, near Bridgnorth, Shropshire, U.K.
- Paleoregion
- Laurussia (Avalonia)
Data for Holotypus
- Repository
- Natural History Museum, London, U.K.
- Repository Number
- V.62770
- Diagnosis
- A subspecies of C. pertoni containing miospores 18 - 30 μm (x = 25 μm) in diameter with rounded to roundedtriangular ambs and narrow equatorial crassitudes. Spores trilete (sutures sometimes accompanied by triradiate folds or lips) with equatorial margins and distal surfaces ornamented by coni. Proximal surfaces sometimes with folds, smooth or with three inter-radial papillae, spores referable to two dispersed spore taxa Streelispora newportensis and Aneuspora sp.
