Zamites eathiensis T.Richards
Plant Fossil Names Registry Number: PFN001987
Act LSID: urn:lsid:plantfossilnames.org:act:1987
Author: T. Richards
Rank: species
Original spelling: Eathiensis
Reference: Richards, T. (1884): On Scottish Fossil Cycadaceous Leaves contained in the Hugh Miller Collection. – Proceedings of the Royal Physical Society of Edinburgh 8: 116–123.
Page of description: 117
Previously published illustration or figures: fig. 133 in Miller, H. (1857): The testimony of the rock; or, Geology in its bearings on the two theologies, nature and revealed. Thomas Constable & co., Shepherd & Elliot, Edinburgh, Hamilton, Adams & co., London: 500 pp.
Types
Holotype
Previously published illustration or figures: fig. 133 in Miller, H. (1857): The testimony of the rock; or, Geology in its bearings on the two theologies, nature and revealed. Thomas Constable & co., Shepherd & Elliot, Edinburgh, Hamilton, Adams & co., London: 500 pp.
Original diagnosis/description
Foliis magnis, decim. 3 et ultra longis, pinnis subremotis, rachi crasscae perpendicularibus, pro more suboppositis, millim. 10–13 latis, basi apud marginem inferiorem leniter constricta oblique insertis, persistentibus, nervis leniter divergentibus.
Stratigraphy
Locality
United Kingdom
Eathie, in the neighbourhood of Cromarty, Scotland
Plant fossil remain
macro- and meso-fossils-embryophytes except wood
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