Convolutispora inreligata G.Playford

Plant Fossil Names Registry Number: PFN002975

Act LSID: urn:lsid:plantfossilnames.org:act:2975

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: 242

Illustrations or figures: fig. 8.10–8.21

Types

Original diagnosis/description

Spores radial, trilete. Amb subcircular, less commonly roundly subtriangular. Laesurae distinct, length ca. one-half to three-quarters of amb radius, simple or bordered, in part or in toto, by lip-like exinal thickenings or rugulae. Exine sculptured conspicuously with coarse, irregularly disposed rugulae of variable length (commonly substantial), width, and height, commonly discrete/unbranched and developed more prominently on distal surface. Some specimens sculptured additionally with coarse, irregularly shaped verrucae. unsculptured exine ca. 2–4 μm thick.

Etymology

Latin, inreligatus, tangled.

Stratigraphy

Carboniferous, Mississippian
Lyall Formation.

Locality

Australia
Clarke River Basin, Queensland.