Pteruchus africanus
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| Pteruchus africanus fossil pollen organ, Late Triassic, Molteno Formation, Umkomaas, South Africa. | |
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| Genus: | Thomas (1933)[1]
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| Species: | P. africanus
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| Pteruchus africanus Thomas
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Pteruchus africanus is a pollen organ of a seed fern (Pteridospermatophyta). It was first described by Hamshaw Thomas [1] from the Umkomaas locality of South Africa.
Description
The pollen organs Pteruchus africanus differ from other species of Pteruchus in small size, and equant blade supporting the pollen sacs.
Whole plant reconstructions
Pteruchus africanus may have been produced by the same plant as Umkomasia macleanii (ovulate organs) and Dicroidium odontopteroides (leaves), based on cuticular similarities between these leaves and reproductive structures at the Umkomaas locality of South Africa.[1]
References
- ^ a b c Thomas, H.H. (1933). "On some pteridospermous plants from the Mesozoic rocks of South Africa". Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society Series B. 222: 193–265. doi:10.1098/rstb.1932.0016.
- ^ Retallack, G.J.; Dilcher, D.L (1988). "Reconstructions of selected seed ferns". Annals of the Missouri Botanical Garden. 75: 1010–1057. doi:10.2307/2399379.
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