Taimyria triassica Naugolnykh et Mogutcheva
Plant Fossil Names Registry Number: PFN003027
Act LSID: urn:lsid:plantfossilnames.org:act:3027
Authors: S. V. Naugolnykh & N. К. Mogutcheva
Rank: species
Genus: Taimyria Naugolnykh et Mogutcheva
Reference: Naugolnykh, S. V. & Mogutcheva, N. К. (2022): Taimyria gen. nov., a new genus of evolutionary advanced gymnosperms from Triassic of the Taimyr Peninsula, Siberia, Russia. – Fossil Imprint 78(2): 432–444.
Page of description: 435
Illustrations or figures: Text-figs 2–11
Name is type for
Types
Holotype 4287/6, Monographic Department of the State Darwin Museum, Moscow, Russian
Figures: text-figs 2a, 3–10
Original diagnosis/description
Long racemose aggregation forming cone or megastrobilus consisting of axis with peltate seed-bearing discs (which also can be interpreted as seed-bearing semiclosed capsules) with margins curved adaxially; disc round to ovoid, with short stalk connected at central adaxial part and attached to cone axis nearly perpendicularly in dense spiral pattern. Six to eight seeds concentrically displayed around stalk on adaxial surface of disc. Seeds platyspermic, ovoid, narrower at their apical micropylar end orientated toward disc stipe.
Etymology
From Triassic period.
Stratigraphy
Triassic, Lower Triassic, Induan
Locality
Russian Federation
The Tsvetkov Cape locality, Taimyr, Siberia
Plant fossil remain
macro- and meso-fossils-embryophytes except wood
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