Androstrobus zamioides Saporta ex Schimp.

Plant Fossil Names Registry Number: PFN002757

Act LSID: urn:lsid:plantfossilnames.org:act:2757

Authors: L. C. J. G. de Saporta ex W. P. Schimper

Rank: species

Genus: Androstrobus Schimp.

Reference: Schimper, W. P. (1870): Traité de Paléontologie Végétale, ou la Flore de Monde primitif dans ses rapports avec les formations géologiques et la flore du monde actuel. J. B. Baillière et Fils, Paris; Baillière, Tindall and Cox, Londres; Carlos Bailly-Baillière, Madrid 2(1): 1–520., link

Page of description: 199

Name is type for

Types

Original diagnosis/description

Androstrobus zamioides Sap., cylindricus, centim. 20 circiter longus, 3 vel ultra crassus, squamis axi crasso spiraliter et valde oblique adfixis, coriaceis crassisque, pelta transverse rhombea millim. 10-12 lata, 5-6 alta, apice obtusa terminatis; loculis antheriferis infra peltam totum latus exterius squamae occupantibus, breviter tubulosis, compressione mutua hexagono-prismaticis, apice poro, ut videtur, apertis.

Emended diagnosis

Deng et al. (2014: J. Syst. Palaeontol., 12(8): 1009):
Microsporangiate strobilus with stout peduncle bearing spirally arranged, coriaceous microsporophylls. Distally, microsporophyll apices incurved and rhomboidal to rounded-rhomboidal in shape, imbricate. Elongate, closely adpressed and possibly fused microsporangia, prismatic in cross section, borne on distal surfaces of microsporophylls. Cuticle and pollen unknown.

Stratigraphy

Jurassic, Middle Jurassic, Bathonian
stratigraphy according to Deng et al. (2014: J. Syst. Palaeontol., 12(8): tab. 1)

Locality

France
Étrochey