Published March 31, 2011 | Version v1
Taxonomic treatment Open

Pterospermella Eisenack 1972

Description

Pterospermella sp. (Fig. 13P)

OCCURRENCE. — Ashikajima Fm (rare).

DISTRIBUTION. — This genus is known from the Precambrian to possibly Holocene.

DESCRIPTION

Flattened lenticular body. The central body is biconvex and darker than the folded equatorial membrane that surrounds it. Length = 38 µm; width = 30 µm; central body (length × width) = 15 × 10 µm; equatorial membrane width = 10 µm.

BOTANICAL AFFINITIES

Pterospermatales, Pterospermellaceae of marine environment.

Notes

Published as part of Legrand, Julien, Pons, Denise, Nishida, Harufumi & Yamada, Toshihiro, 2011, Barremian palynofloras from the Ashikajima and Kimigahama formations (Choshi Group, Outer Zone of south-west Japan), pp. 87-135 in Geodiversitas 33 (1) on pages 116-117, DOI: 10.5252/g2011n1a6, http://zenodo.org/record/4597011

Files

Files (1.1 kB)

Name Size Download all
md5:a7ab45f1691b3cecebefa976f27d2569
1.1 kB Download

System files (8.2 kB)

Name Size Download all
md5:47f38cbed77f5887155080ce05bc722e
8.2 kB Download

Linked records

Additional details

Biodiversity