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Cooksonia caledonica
Cooksonia caledonica D. Edwards Palaeontology, 1970, 13(3): 457–458. Oct 1970
- Name
- Cooksonia caledonica
- Rank
- Species
- Generic Name
- [Genus] Cooksonia
- Authors (Pub.)
- Edwards D.
- Publication
- Fertile Rhyniophytina from the Lower Devonian of Britain [1970/10]
- Journal
- Palaeontology
- Annee/Jahrgang
- 1970
- Volume
- 13
- Issue
- 3
- Page number
- 457–458
- Year
- 1970
- Parent Taxon
- [Genus] Cooksonia
- Stratigraphy
- Lower Devonian
- Location
- Aberlemno, Angus, Scotland
Data for Holotypus
- Repository
- Royal Scottish Museum, Edinburgh, U.K.
- Repository Number
- R.S.M. 1967 .30. 2P and C.
- Diagnosis
- Incomplete plant at least 6.7 cm. high. Naked dichotomously branching axes 0.4–1.8 mm. wide (average 0.65 mm.). Terminal spherical to oval sporangia, some also reniform.Border (0.1–0.2 mm. wide) sometimes present. Globose sporangia 1.2–2.0 mm. high (average 1.7 mm.) by 1.3–2.2 mm. wide (average 1.8 mm.). Oval ones 1.1–1.8 mm. high (average 1.6 mm.) by 1.8–3.0 mm. wide (average 2.4 mm.). Axis widens slightly below sporangium.
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