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Foozia minuta
Foozia minuta Gerrienne Rev. Palaeobot. Palynol., 74(1-2): 149. 16 Oct 1992
- Name
- Foozia minuta
- Rank
- Species
- Generic Name
- [Genus] Foozia
- Authors (Pub.)
- Gerrienne P.
- Publication
- The Emsian plants from Fooz-Wépion (Belgium) III [1992/10]
- Journal
- Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology
- Volume
- 74
- Issue
- 1-2
- Page number
- 149
- Year
- 1992
- Fossil Status
- stems (with sporangia)
- Stratigraphy
- Emsian
- Location
- Bois Collet quarry, Fooz-Wépion, 8 km south of Namur (northern margin of the Dinant Synclinorium), Belgium
- Paleoregion
- Laurussia (Avalonia)
Data for Holotypus
- Repository
- Université de Liège, Liège, Belgium
- Repository Number
- 10417 E; 10417 CE
- Diagnosis
- Main axis is 1.2(3.1)-4.7 mm wide, at least 57 mm long. Appendages arc 0.26·(0.34) 0.40 mm wide; vegetative ones 8-17 mm long, fertile ones 5-·10 mm long; some of the appendages of both types show one isotomy (50 100°). Sporangia are 1.0-(1.9)·-3.4 mm long and 0.5( 0.8) 1.6 mm wide. Sporangium epidermic cells arc elongate, approximately 200 l.lIn long and 20 11m wide. Spores arc 63-(78}·83 11m in diameter, circular, oval to subtriangular in equatorial outline. Smooth contact areas are outlined by the trilete mark extending 2/3 to 4/5 of the spore radius and by curvaturae perfectac. Distal and proximoequatorial sides are covered with coni, pila or verrucae, 0.5-··(1.5)-2.0 11m high and wide and circular in apical view. The spores arc similar to the sporae dispersae species Dibolisporites echinaceus. Xylem clements are approximately 6- (15)-18 11m wide, being at least 250 11m long.
