Williamsonia gracilis McLoughlin, C.Pott et Sobbe
Plant Fossil Names Registry Number: PFN000249
Act LSID: urn:lsid:plantfossilnames.org:act:249
Authors: S. McLoughlin, C. Pott & I. H. Sobbe
Rank: species
Reference: McLoughlin, S., Pott, C. & Sobbe, I. H. (2018): The diversity of Australian Mesozoic bennettitopsid reproductive organs. – Palaeobiodiversity and Palaeoenvironments 98(1): 71–95.
Page of description: 82
Illustrations or figures: fig. 7a–d
Types
Holotype F21889, Geoscience Australia, Canberra, Australia
Figures: fig. 7a–d
Original diagnosis/description
Moderate-sized, globose Williamsonia with uniformly narrow, linear, entire-margined, basally fused bracts.
Etymology
Latin: gracilis—slender; after the narrow, gracile nature of the bracts.
Stratigraphy
Cretaceous, Lower Cretaceous
Lees Sandstone; Berriasian–Hauterivian
Locality
Australia
Locality TT32 of White (1961), 3.2 km northwest of old Bauhinia Downs Homestead, Northern Territory
Plant fossil remain
macro- and meso-fossils-embryophytes except wood
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