Cordaites radvanicensis Šimůnek

Plant Fossil Names Registry Number: PFN000413

Act LSID: urn:lsid:plantfossilnames.org:act:413

Rank: species

Reference: Šimůnek, Z. (2007): Genus Cordaites from the Carboniferous and Permian of the Bohemian Massif (Epidermal structure study). – Acta Musei Nationalis Pragae, Series B – Historia Naturalis 62(2006)(3–4): 97–210., link

Page of description: 125

Illustrations or figures: text-fig. 25a–e; pl. 3, fig. 3, pl. 20

Types

Holotype ZŠ 234, Czech Geological Survey, Prague, the Czech Republic
Figures: pl. 3, fig. 3

Original diagnosis/description

Narrow, amphistomatic leaves, with medium-dense venation. Two to three thin veins alternate with each thick vein. Adaxial cuticle with oval, rounded, toroidally oblong cells. Stomata dispersed in dark bands. Abaxial cuticle with oblong, oval to trapezoidal cells, stomata in rows, lateral subsidiary cells elongated, oval to reniform.

Etymology

From the type locality at Radvanice village

Stratigraphy

Carboniferous, Pennsylvanian
Odolov Formation; Jívka Member, Radvanice Coals. Stephanian B

Locality

Czech Republic
Radvanice, Kateřina Mine, Intrasudetic Basin

Plant fossil remain

macro- and meso-fossils-embryophytes except wood

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