Cordaites sudeticus Šimůnek

Plant Fossil Names Registry Number: PFN000407

Act LSID: urn:lsid:plantfossilnames.org:act:407

Author: Z. Šimůnek

Rank: species

Reference: Šimůnek, Z. (2007): Genus Cordaites from the Carboniferous and Permian of the Bohemian Massif (Epidermal structure study). – Acta Musei Nationalis Pragae, Series B – Historia Naturalis 62(2006)(3–4): 97–210., link

Page of description: 116

Illustrations or figures: text-figs 1i, 18a–d; pl. 2, fig. 9, pl. 11

Types

Original diagnosis/description

Large, amphistomatic, lanceolate leaves with blunt apices. Venation is dense, 1–2 indistinct veins alternate with each thick vein. Adaxial and abaxial cuticles, oblong cells and stomata isolated from each other, separated in infrequent poorly defined stomatal rows.

Etymology

From the Sudetic region, the type region.

Stratigraphy

Permian
Vrchlabí Formation, Rudník Horizon, layers 1 and 8 (sensu Šimůnek, Drábková and Zajíc 1990). Permian, Lower Autunian

Locality

Czech Republic
Vrchlabí, road cut w. from town, Krkonoše Piedmont Basin