Alatampulla E.L.Miner
Plant Fossil Names Registry Number: PFN001119
Act LSID: urn:lsid:plantfossilnames.org:act:1119
Author: E. L. Miner
Rank: genus
Reference: Miner, E. L. (1935): Paleobotanical examinations of Cretaceous and Tertiary coals. – The American Midland Naturalist 16(4): 585–625., link
Page of description: 600
Type
Alatampulla bartlettii E.L.Miner
Original diagnosis/description
Small winged seeds, longer than broad; wing rather uniform in width, completely surrounding the nucula or nucular cavity. This genus differs from Samaropsis in that in the latter genus are included seeds of the samaroid type which are approximately circular, and much larger.
Plant fossil remain
macro- and meso-fossils-embryophytes except wood
Names associated with genus
Alatampulla bartlettii E.L.Miner 1935
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