Arcellites disciformis E.L.Miner
Plant Fossil Names Registry Number: PFN002814
Act LSID: urn:lsid:plantfossilnames.org:act:2814
Author: E. L. Miner
Rank: species
Genus: Arcellites E.L.Miner
Reference: Miner, E. L. (1935): Paleobotanical examinations of Cretaceous and Tertiary coals. – The American Midland Naturalist 16(4): 585–625., link
Page of description: 600
Illustrations or figures: pl. 20, figs 61, 64–66
Name is type for
Arcellites E.L.Miner 1935
Types
Syntype 15497, Museum of Palaeontology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, USA
Figures: pl. 20, fig. 61
Note: Miner (1935) specified 2 syntypes (calling them cotypes; but he distinguished between cotypes and holotype): "Slides No. 15497, 15498". In addition to the above-mentioned figure, he listed both of these cotypes as being figured on pl. 20, figs 64–66, but did not specified which particular specimen is figured in which figure.
Original diagnosis/description
Rotund, 265–350 μ in diameter, the average being 310 μ; surface pitted; 12–24 tube-like appendages, 24–30 μ in width and 35–88 μ in length, with sides usually parallel, or sometimes slightly constricted near the base; orifices of appendages broadly elliptical, averaging about 10 × 14 μ in diameter.
Stratigraphy
Locality
Denmark
Skansen, east coast of Disko Island, Greenland; 2 miles inland at an altitude of 140 meters
Plant fossil remain
pollen and spores
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