Camptotriletes suggrandis G.Playford

Plant Fossil Names Registry Number: PFN002974

Act LSID: urn:lsid:plantfossilnames.org:act:2974

Author: G. Playford

Rank: species

Genus:

Reference: Playford, G. (2022): Mississippian palynoflora from the Clarke River Basin, north Queensland, Australia. – Ameghiniana 59(4): 225–264.

Page of description: 240

Illustrations or figures: fig. 7.10–7.14

Types

Holotype D648/4, T43/2, Queensland Museum, Australia
Figures: fig. 7.10

Original diagnosis/description

Spores radial, trilete. Amb subcircular to subtriangular; margin irregularly undulant. Laesurae commonly extending close to equatorial margin, accompanied and ± obscured by irregular, scabrate lip developments. Exine 0.9– 1.5 μm thick, comprehensively and irregularly sculptured with long, curving, non-anastomosing, laevigate–scabrate rugulae ca. 1.2–12 μm wide and 1–3.5 μm high. Rugulae commonly well-spaced, up to ca. 40 μm apart. Non-rugulate exine scabrate, 0.9–1.6 μm thick.

Etymology

Latin, suggrandis, somewhat large.

Stratigraphy

Carboniferous, Mississippian
Lyall Formation.

Locality

Australia
Clarke River Basin, Queensland

Plant fossil remain

pollen and spores

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