Goczania rugosa E.M.Friis, P.R.Crane et K.R.Pedersen
Plant Fossil Names Registry Number: PFN000462
Act LSID: urn:lsid:plantfossilnames.org:act:462
Authors: E. M. Friis, P. R. Crane & K. R. Pedersen
Rank: species
Genus: Goczania E.M.Friis, P.R.Crane et K.R.Pedersen
Reference: Friis, E. M., Crane, P. R. & Pedersen, K. R. (2019): The Early Cretaceous mesofossil flora of Torres Vedras (NE of Forte da Forca), Portugal: a palaeofloristic analysis of an early angiosperm community. – Fossil Imprint 75(2): 153–257.
Page of description: 196
Illustrations or figures: Text-fig. 27a–f
Name is type for
Types
Holotype S136688, Palaeobotanical Collections, Department of Palaeobiology, the Swedish Museum of Natural History, Stockholm, Sweden
Figures: Text-fig. 27a, c–f
Note: Holotype is from Torres Vedras sample 43.
Paratypes: e. S148129 (Torres Vedras 43), S136664 (Torres Vedras sample 44) housed in Palaeobotanical Collections, Department of Palaeobiology, the Swedish Museum of Natural History, Stockholm, Sweden.
Original diagnosis/description
As for the genus with the following additions: Equatorial outline of pollen almost circular. Tectum weakly rugulate. Microechinae evenly distributed
over the tectum.
Etymology
From Latin: rugosus referring to rugose surface of the pollen grains.
Stratigraphy
Cretaceous, Lower Cretaceous
Lower member of the Almargem Formation; Early Cretaceous (late Barremian-early Aptian)
Locality
Portugal
Torres Vedras (NE of Forte de Forca; 39°06′13″ N, 9°14′47″ W)
Plant fossil remain
macro- and meso-fossils-embryophytes except wood
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