Didymophyllon owenii Lesq.

Plant Fossil Names Registry Number: PFN003464

Act LSID: urn:lsid:plantfossilnames.org:act:3464

Rank: species

Original or alternative spelling: Didymophyllum owenii

Genus:

Reference for this name: Lesquereux, C. L. (1881): Description of the coal flora of the Carboniferous Formation in Pennsylvania and throughout the United States. – Second Geological Survey of Pennsylvania Report of Progress 1.

Page of description: 801

Illustrations or figures: pl. xcii

Types

Holotype
Figures: pl. 92, fig. 11
Previously published illustration or figures: Lesquereux, C. L. (1864): Description of the Coal Flora of The Carboniferous Formation in Pennsylvania and Throughout the United States. Board of Commissioners for the Second Geological Survey III: 801 pp.

Note: No specimen has survived. Was in collection at Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana; destroyed by fire, 1883.

Original diagnosis/description

Trunks large, not costate; leaf-scars double, transversalely oval, narrowed at the inside corners, joined by a deep, sliqhtly arched line or groove; vascular scars small, narrw, oval central tubercles; surface between the scars regularly and finely wrinlkled; roots obliquely diverging from the base, soon horizontal, marked with round stigmaroid areoles.

Etymology

Species named in honor of David Dale Owen, first State Geologist of Indiana.

Stratigraphy

Carboniferous, Pennsylvanian

Locality

United States
Blairsville, Indiana, USA

Plant fossil remain

fossil wood

Notes

Website on Didymophyllon owenii: https://faculty.evansville.edu/ck6/bstud/owentree.html. The website tells of the discovery of Didymophyllon owenii, in 1843. Included are earliest taxa, descriptions of specimens at site of discovery, placement in Sigillaria in 1862, replacement in Dydimophyllon in 1884, and a drawing by John Chappellsmith, of New Harmony, Indiana. Species named by Leo Lesquereux in honor of David Dale Owen, first State Geologist of Indiana. (Although the original and correct spelling of the genus is Didymophyllon, the spelling "Didymophyllum" has been published.)

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