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

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

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