Zeugarocarpus adroagathus Leng, Schönenb. et E.M.Friis
Plant Fossil Names Registry Number: PFN002825
Act LSID: urn:lsid:plantfossilnames.org:act:2825
Authors: Q. Leng, J. Schönenberger & E. M. Friis
Rank: species
Genus: Zeugarocarpus Leng, Schönenb. et E.M.Friis
Reference: Leng, Q., Schönenberger, J. & Friis, E. M. (2005): Late Cretaceous follicular fruits from southern Sweden with systematic affinities to early diverging eudicots. – Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society 148(4): 377–407.
Page of description: 383
Illustrations or figures: figs 23–43
Name is type for
Zeugarocarpus Leng, Schönenb. et E.M.Friis 2005
Types
Holotype S107034, Palaeobotanical Collections, Department of Palaeobiology, the Swedish Museum of Natural History, Stockholm, Sweden
Figures: figs 23, 24, 27, 28, 33, 34, 36, 39
Note: Holotype from sample GI32197.
Original diagnosis/description
Follicle surface with scattered trichome bases. Follicles with up to four mature seeds with large, conical and rugulate spines.
Etymology
From Greek referring to the coarsely sculptured spines on the seed surface.
Stratigraphy
Cretaceous, Upper Cretaceous
Late Santonian–Early Campanian
Locality
Sweden
Höganäs AB quarry at Åsen, Scania
Plant fossil remain
macro- and meso-fossils-embryophytes except wood
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