Cupressinocladus massiliensis (Saporta) Seward
Plant Fossil Names Registry Number: PFN003749
Act LSID: urn:lsid:plantfossilnames.org:act:3749
Author: A. C. Seward
Rank: species
Basionym: Thujopsis massiliensis Saporta
Genus: Cupressinocladus Seward
Reference for this name: Seward, A. C. (1919): Fossil Plants. A text-book for students of botany and geology. Volume IV: Ginkgoales, Coniferales, Gnetales. Cambridge University Press: xvi + 543 pp..
Page of description: 309
Types for basionym
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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