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Peltaspermum cournanei
Peltaspermum cournanei M.S. Pole, J.I. Raine Alcheringa, 18(1-2): 152. 28 Mar 1994
- Name
- Peltaspermum cournanei
- Rank
- Species
- Generic Name
- [Genus] Peltaspermum
- Authors (Pub.)
- Pole M. S.
Raine J. I.
- Publication
- Triassic plant fossils from Pollock Road, Southland, New Zealand [1994/3]
- Journal
- Alcheringa
- Volume
- 18
- Issue
- 1-2
- Page number
- 152
- Year
- 1994
- Fossil Status
- fructifications (female)
- Stratigraphy
- Rhaetian
- Strat. comment
- Murihiku Supergroup
- Location
- F46/f067, small cutting on the north side of a gully 300 m south of Pollock Road, about 10 m below the Glenham Porphyry, near Glenham, Southland, New Zealand
- Paleoregion
- Gondwana (New Zealand)
Data for Holotypus
- Repository
- Geology Museum, University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand
- Repository Number
- OU30557
- Diagnosis
- Palmate aggregates, 13-15 mm across, of four or six lobes. Each lobe is oval
in outline, 5 mm x 3.5 mm, attached to a plate. Some aggregates have lobes, hemispherical in section, others more flattened but with pronounced longitudinal grooves on surface.
