Back
Asterophyllites lubnensis
Asterophyllites lubnensis C.J. Cleal J. Palaeontol. Soc. India, 2025, (10.1177/05529360251400413): 12. 8 Dec 2025
- Name
- Asterophyllites lubnensis
- Rank
- Species
- Generic Name
- [Genus] Asterophyllites
- Authors (Pub.)
- Cleal C. J.
- Publication
- Diversity of small-leafed equisetaleans in Late Carboniferous coal
swamps of Euramerica [2025/12]
- Journal
- Journal of the Palaeontological Society of India
- Annee/Jahrgang
- 2025
- Issue
- 10.1177/05529360251400413
- Page number
- 12
- Year
- 2025
- Fossil Status
- leafy twigs
- Stratigraphy
- Moscovian
- Strat. comment
- Kladno Formation
- Location
- Provenance Rako Mine, Lubná, Rakovnik, Czech Republic
- Paleoregion
- Laurussia (Perunica)
Data for Holotypus
- Repository
- Národní Muzeum, Prague, Czech Republic
- Repository Number
- E 1144
- Diagnosis
- Foliage adpressions of ultimate shoots with slender stems ca. 1 mm wide with fine longitudinal ribs. Isophyllous whorls of up to 10 slender leaves borne at 1.5–2.5 mm intervals along the shoot, reducing to 1.5 mm in the
distal part of the shoot, attached typically at 90°. Leaves on ultimate shoots are up to 5–7 mm long. Leaves are slenderfalcate with acute apex, typically straight for half their length, then bending sharply so the distal part is near a right angle to the stem.
