Crackipollenites P.R.Gut. et Zavattieri

Plant Fossil Names Registry Number: PFN001787

Act LSID: urn:lsid:plantfossilnames.org:act:1787

Authors: P. R. Gutiérrez & A. M. Zavattieri

Rank: genus

Reference: Gutiérrez, P. R. & Zavattieri, A. M. (2021): New Middle Triassic pollen taxa of the San Rafael Basin, Mendoza Province, Argentina. – Ameghiniana 58(1): 12–34., link

Page of description: 24

Type

Original diagnosis/description

Pollen grain heteropolar with subcircular to elliptical outline in polar view; irregular area of the opening (hilum) on one of the poles. Hilum not always distinctive, in part covered by secondary folds and/or by breaking. Wall minutely and evenly punctate, ca. 1–2 μm thick; negatively reticulate, divided into large irregular polygonal areas

Etymology

The name refers to the characteristic polygonal cracked surface of the pollen grain (of the Latin “crack”= cracked).