Eckartia brevicolumella E.M.Friis, P.R.Crane et K.R.Pedersen

Plant Fossil Names Registry Number: PFN000472

Act LSID: urn:lsid:plantfossilnames.org:act:472

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

Rank: species

Original spelling: Eckhartia brevicolumella

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

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: 210

Illustrations or figures: Text-fig. 37a–g

Name is type for

Eckartia E.M.Friis, P.R.Crane et K.R.Pedersen 2019 nom. illeg., non Eckartia Rchb., Deut. Bot. Herb.-Buch 53 (1841)

Types

Holotype S136760, Palaeobotanical Collections, Department of Palaeobiology, the Swedish Museum of Natural History, Stockholm, Sweden
Figures: Text-fig. 37c, g

Note: Holotype is from Torres Vedras sample 44.
Paratypes: S136661, S136662, S136751, S136752, S136673, S136765, S137920, S137921, S148021, S149204 (Torres Vedras sample 44) housed in the Palaeobotanical Collections, Department of Palaeobiology, the Swedish Museum of Natural History, Stockholm, Sweden.

Original diagnosis/description

As for the genus with the following additions: Anthers elongate. Reticulum coarse. Columellae short, densely spaced or sometimes laterally merged.

Etymology

From Latin: brevis for short and columella referring to short columellae supporting the muri.

Stratigraphy

Cretaceous, Lower Cretaceous
Lower member of the Almargem Formation; Early Cretaceous (late Barremian-early Aptian).

Locality

Portugal
Torres Vedras (NE of Forte de Forca; 39°06′13″ N, 9°14′47″ W).

Plant fossil remain

macro- and meso-fossils-embryophytes except wood

Notes

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