Lobospermum glabrum E.M.Friis, K.R.Pedersen et P.R.Crane

Plant Fossil Names Registry Number: PFN002852

Act LSID: urn:lsid:plantfossilnames.org:act:2852

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

Rank: species

Genus: Lobospermum E.M.Friis, K.R.Pedersen et P.R.Crane

Reference: Friis, E. M., Pedersen, K. R. & Crane, P. R. (2009): Early Cretaceous mesofossils from Portugal and eastern North America related to the Bennettitales-Erdtmanithecales-Gnetales group. – American Journal of Botany 96(1): 252–283.

Page of description: 259

Illustrations or figures: figs 45–53

Types

Holotype S154554, Palaeobotanical Collections, Department of Palaeobiology, the Swedish Museum of Natural History, Stockholm, Sweden
Figures: figs 47, 48

Note: Holotype from sample Famalicão 25.

Paratypes: S154553, S154555, S156005–S156012 (sample Famalicão 25).

Original diagnosis/description

As for the genus with the following additions. Outer surface of seed almost smooth. Cells of outer sclerenchyma layer not equiaxial in transverse section: cells toward the inside distinctly taller, cells toward the outside equiaxial.

Etymology

Referring to the smooth surface of the seed.

Stratigraphy

Cretaceous, Lower Cretaceous
Below Calvaria Member, Figueira da Foz Formation; late Aptian?

Locality

Portugal
Famalicão, about 5 km SSE of Leiria (39°42′16″N, 8°46′12″ W)

Plant fossil remain

macro- and meso-fossils-embryophytes except wood

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