Saxonipollis
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| Genus: | Saxonipollis
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| Species: | S. saxonicus
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| Saxonipollis saxonicus Krutzsch (1970)
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Saxonipollis saxonicus is an extinct plant species. It was possibly carnivorous. It is known only from fossilised pollen found in Eocene deposits of East Germany.[1]
S. saxonicus was possibly a precursor to Aldrovanda, or a close relative to its precursor.[2]
References
- ^ Krutzsch, W. 1970. Zur Kenntnis fossiler disperser Tetradenpollen. Paläontologische Abhandlungen Abteilung B, Paläobotanik 3(3): 399–433.
- ^ Degreef, J.D. 1997. Template:PDFlink Carnivorous Plant Newsletter 26(3): 93–97.
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