Aspleniopteris difformis Sternb.
Plant Fossil Names Registry Number: PFN001888
Act LSID: urn:lsid:plantfossilnames.org:act:1888
Author: K. M. Sternberg
Rank: species
Reference: Sternberg, K. M. (1825): Versuch einer geognostisch-botanischen Darstellung der Flora der Vorwelt, Bd. I, H. 4. Ernst Brenck’s Wittwe, Regensburg: 48 pp., tent. pp. I–XLII.
Page of description: XXI
Replaced synonym
Asplenium difforme Sternb. 1821 nom. illeg., non Asplenium difforme R.Br. 1810, Prodr. Fl. Nov. Holland., p. 151
Original diagnosis/description
Fronde pinnatifida, pinnulis inferioribus subrotundis, ceteris obtuse subangularis vel retusis.
Stratigraphy
Neogene, Miocene
Most Formation (stratigraphy according to J. Kvaček et al. (2021): Sternbergiana, 1: 83–84)
Locality
Czech Republic
Sternberg (1821: 29) cited several locations: "...er wird in der Gegend von Komotau [= Chomutov], Brüx [= Most], Oberleitersdorf [= Litvínov] öfters,..."
The exact localisation of subsequently designated lectotype is unknown (see J. Kvaček et al. (2021): Sternbergiana, 1: 83–84).
Plant fossil remain
macro- and meso-fossils-embryophytes except wood
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