Cordaites pastuchovicensis Šimůnek

Plant Fossil Names Registry Number: PFN003179

Act LSID: urn:lsid:plantfossilnames.org:act:3179

Author: Z. Šimůnek

Rank: species

Reference for this name: Šimůnek, Z. (2024): Leaf cuticular analysis of the Upper Pennsylvanian and lower Cisuralian (Carboniferous – Permian) species of Cordaites Unger from the Bohemian Massif, Czech Republic. – Palaeontographica Abteilung B-Palaeophytologie Palaeobotany-Palaeophytology 305(5–6): 121–191.

Page of description: 136

Illustrations or figures: pls 11–12, 13 ( 1-2)

Types

Original diagnosis/description

Relatively wide leaves with blunt to rounded apices, venation is very fine, strands of sclerotic tissue hardly discernible from veins. Stomata in rows on the adaxial and abaxial cuticles.

Etymology

According to name of the village, where this species has been discovered.

Stratigraphy

Carboniferous
Slaný Formation, Hředle Member, Saberian (Gzhelian).

Locality

Czech Republic
Pastuchovice, Žihle Basin.