Thujopsis massiliensis Saporta
Plant Fossil Names Registry Number: PFN003746
Act LSID: urn:lsid:plantfossilnames.org:act:3746
Author: L. C. J. G. de Saporta
Rank: species
Reference for this name: Saporta, L. C. J. G. de (1865): Études sur la végétation du sud-est de la France à l'époque tertiaire. – Annales des Sciences Naturelles, Botanique, Cinquième série 3(2): 65–128. Not public
Page of description: 72
Other combinations
Cupressinocladus massiliensis (Saporta) Seward 1919
Types
Lectotype 16289, Muséum national d’Histoire naturelle, Paris, France
designated in Kvaček, Z. (2008): The role of types in palaeobotanical nomenclature. – Acta Mus. Nat. Pragae, Ser. B Hist. Nat. 64(2): 89–96.
Figures: pl. 1, fig. 6 (non pl. 4, fig. 2)
Original diagnosis/description
T. ramulis alternis et oppositis, ancipitibus, compressis; foliis quadrifariam imbricatis, squamæformibus ; lateralibus oblongis curvato-falcatis, subadnatis, breviter acuminatis ; facialhibus compresso dorso caripatis infra apicem glanduliferis obtusissime productis utrinque amplectentibus. — Seminibus? (pl. IV, fig. 2) compressis, ovato-orbiculatis, nucleo parvo elliptico ala tenuiter membranacea sursum emarginata utrinque circumeincto.
Stratigraphy
Locality
France
Fénestrelle, Bouches-du-Rhône, Provence-Alpes-Côte-d'Azur
Plant fossil remain
macro- and meso-fossils-embryophytes except wood - gymnosperm
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