Eckartia intermedia E.M.Friis, P.R.Crane et K.R.Pedersen

Plant Fossil Names Registry Number: PFN000474

Act LSID: urn:lsid:plantfossilnames.org:act:474

Authors: E. M. Friis, P. R. Crane & K. R. Pedersen

Rank: species

Original spelling: Eckhartia intermedia

Genus: Eckartia 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: 213

Illustrations or figures: Text-fig. 39a–e

Types

Holotype S148209, Palaeobotanical Collections, Department of Palaeobiology, the Swedish Museum of Natural History, Stockholm, Sweden
Figures: Text-fig. 39a–e

Note: Holotype is from Torres Vedras sample 43.

Original diagnosis/description

As for the genus with the following additions: Reticulum fine. Columellae short and densely arranged.

Etymology

As for the genus with the following additions: Reticulum fine. Columellae short and densely arranged.

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

Notes

The name of the genus was originally published with an orthographical error as Eckhartia. However, it is established in honour of the German palynologist Eckart Schrank, therefore the correct spelling is Eckartia (see ICN Art. 60.1, Ex. 7 and Fossil Imprint, 79: 510).

Eckartia E.M.Friis, P.R.Crane et K.R.Pedersen nom. illeg., non Eckartia Rchb., Deut. Bot. Herb.-Buch 53 (1841).

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