Asplenium difforme Sternb. nom. illeg.

Plant Fossil Names Registry Number: PFN002482

Act LSID: urn:lsid:plantfossilnames.org:act:2482

Rank: species

Genus:

Illegitimate name, non Asplenium difforme R.Br. 1810, Prodr. Fl. Nov. Holland., p. 151

Reference: Sternberg, K. M. (1821): Versuch einer geognostisch-botanischen Darstellung der Flora der Vorwelt, Bd. I, H. 2. in Commission im Deutschen Museum, F. Fleischer, Leipzig: 33 pp.

Page of description: 33

Illustrations or figures: pl. 24, fig. 1

Replacement name

Aspleniopteris difformis Sternb. 1825

Types

Lectotype G 2113, National Museum, Prague, the Czech Republic
designated in Kvaček, J., Dašková, J. & Libertín, M. (2021): Catalogue of plant fossils described in works by Kaspar M. Sternberg. Second revised edition. – Sternbergiana 1: 1–309. on page 83
Plant Fossil Names Registry Number: PFN001894
Act LSID: urn:lsid:plantfossilnames.org:act:1894
Figures: pl. 17, fig. 3

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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