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Cooksonia pertonii synorispora
Cooksonia pertonii Subspecies synorispora Fanning, J.B. Richardson, D. Edwards Evol. Trends Pl., 2(1): 23. 1988
- Name
- Cooksonia pertonii synorispora
- 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
- Pridoli
- Strat. comment
- Rushall Beds, Downton Group
- Location
- Perton Lane Quarry, near Stoke Edith, Herefordshire, U.K.
- Paleoregion
- Laurussia (Avalonia)
Data for Holotypus
- Repository
- Natural History Museum, London, U.K.
- Repository Number
- V.62769
- Diagnosis
- A subspecies of C. pertoni containing trilete miospores, 15-30 μm diameter (x = 23 μm) with rounded to rounded-triangular ambs and narrow equatorial crassitudes. Proximal surface smooth, distal surface sculptured with verrucae occasionally merging into muri. Spores referable to dispersed spore taxon Synorisporites verrucatus.
