Dinisia portugallica E.M.Friis, P.R.Crane et K.R.Pedersen
Plant Fossil Names Registry Number: PFN000484
Act LSID: urn:lsid:plantfossilnames.org:act:484
Authors: E. M. Friis, P. R. Crane & K. R. Pedersen
Rank: species
Genus: Dinisia 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: 223
Illustrations or figures: Text-fig. 45a–e
Name is type for
Types
Holotype S148216, Palaeobotanical Collections, Department of Palaeobiology, the Swedish Museum of Natural History, Stockholm, Sweden
Figures: Text-fig. 45a–e
Note: Holotype is from Torres Vedras sample 44.
Paratype S148217 (Torres Vedras sample 44) is housed in Palaeobotanical Collections, Department of Palaeobiology, the Swedish Museum of Natural History, Stockholm, Sweden.
Original diagnosis/description
Anther dithecate and tetrasporangiate. Pollen small, elliptical to almost circular in equatorial outline, monocolpate. Colpus short. Exine semitectate-reticulate and columellate. Reticulum homobrochate, vermiform; lumina of irregular shape. Muri of irregular width, supported by long, scattered columellae. Colpus margin indistinct. Colpus membrane with a fragmented reticulum. Orbicules small, spherical.
Etymology
From Portugal where the fossils were discovered.
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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