Endosporites circumsaeptus G.Playford

Plant Fossil Names Registry Number: PFN002977

Act LSID: urn:lsid:plantfossilnames.org:act:2977

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: 252

Illustrations or figures: fig. 11.11–11.13

Types

Original diagnosis/description

Spores radial, trilete, with convexly subtriangular amb. Laesurae ± distinct, straight or undulant, length 0.7–0.9 of spore radius; simple or with narrow, commonly irregular lips or exinal folds up to ca. 5 μm in overall width. Exoexine laevigate to faintly scabrate, 0.9–1.5 μm thick. intexine laevigate, thickness similar to or slightly greater than exoexine, occupying bulk (average 85%) of spore cavity, outline in polar view ± conforming with amb.

Etymology

Latin, circumsaeptus, enclosed, surrounded.

Stratigraphy

Carboniferous, Mississippian
Lyall Formation.

Locality

Australia
Clarke River Basin, Queensland.