Eckartianthus E.M.Friis, P.R.Crane et K.R.Pedersen

Plant Fossil Names Registry Number: PFN000469

Act LSID: urn:lsid:plantfossilnames.org:act:469

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

Rank: genus

Original spelling: Eckhartianthus

Reference: Friis, E. M., Crane, P. R. & Pedersen, K. R. (2019): The Early Cretaceous mesofossil flora of Torres Vedras (NE of Forte da Forca), Portugal: a palaeofloristic analysis of an early angiosperm community. – Fossil Imprint 75(2): 153–257.

Page of description: 207

Type taxon

Eckartianthus lusitanicus E.M.Friis, P.R.Crane et K.R.Pedersen

Original protologue

Flower bisexual, trimerous with three long tepals in a single whorl, nine stamens and three carpels. Anthers dithecate and tetrasporangiate, elongate,
filament broad. Pollen monocolpate, colpus long, extending almost to the equator. Exine semitectate-reticulate, with a heterobrochate reticulum, rounded muri and short, densely spaced columellae. Colpus margin well-defined psilate. Orbicules irregular, rounded. Ovary superior.

Etymology

In honor of the German palynologist Eckart Schrank in recognition of his important contribution to Cretaceous palynology and Greek: anthos for flower.

Plant fossil remain

macro- and meso-fossils-embryophytes except wood

Names associated with genus

Eckartianthus lusitanicus E.M.Friis, P.R.Crane et K.R.Pedersen 2019

Notes

The name was originally published with an orthographical error as Eckhartianthus. However, it is established in honour of the German palynologist Eckart Schrank, therefore the correct spelling is Eckartianthus (see ICN Art. 60.1, Ex. 7 and Fossil Imprint, 79: 510).