Nicholsia brevicolpites E.M.Friis, P.R.Crane et K.R.Pedersen
Plant Fossil Names Registry Number: PFN000498
Act LSID: urn:lsid:plantfossilnames.org:act:498
Authors: E. M. Friis, P. R. Crane & K. R. Pedersen
Rank: species
Genus: Nicholsia 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: 236
Illustrations or figures: Text-fig. 53a–d
Name is type for
Types
Holotype S137906-03, Palaeobotanical Collections, Department of Palaeobiology, the Swedish Museum of Natural History, Stockholm, Sweden
Figures: Text-fig. 53a–d
Note: Hokotype is from Torres Vedras sample 44.
Original diagnosis/description
Pollen small, prolate, tricolpate. Colpi short. Tectum foveolate to microreticulate. Perforations rounded and of even size over the main body of the grains.
Colpus margin indistinct. Colpus membrane verrucate.
Etymology
From Latin: brevis and colpus referring to the short colpi.
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
pollen and spores
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