Watsoniocladus valdensis (Seward) V.Sriniv.
Plant Fossil Names Registry Number: PFN002407
Act LSID: urn:lsid:plantfossilnames.org:act:2407
Author: V. Srinivasan
Rank: species
Basionym: Thuites valdensis Seward
Genus: Watsoniocladus V.Sriniv.
Reference: Srinivasan, V. (1995): Conifers from the Puddledock locality (Potomac Group, Early Cretaceous) in eastern North America. – Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology 89(3–4): 257–286.
Page of description: 267
Previously published illustration or figures: Seward, A. C. (1895): Catalogue of the Mesozoic Plants in the Department of Geology, British Museum (Natural History). The Wealden Flora. Part II. – Gymnospermæ. Trustees of the British Museum (Natural History), London: 259 pp.
Types
Holotype V.2138, Natural History Museum, London, United Kingdom
Figures: pl. 20, fig. 6
Original diagnosis/description
Branching opposite, leaves in whorls, adpressed to the stem, two in each whorl, keeled dorsally and with comparatively blunt apices.
Stratigraphy
Locality
United Kingdom
Ecclesbourne, Hastings
Plant fossil remain
macro- and meso-fossils-embryophytes except wood
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