Fossil plants, Vol. 3 : $b A text-book for students of botany and geologySeward, A. C. (Albert Charles)
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Fossil plants, Vol. 3 : $b A text-book for students of botany and geology
Seward, A. C. (Albert Charles)
Paleobotany
This species was first described by Phillips[743] from the Middle
Jurassic Stonesfield Slate and afterwards referred to _Zamites_[744]:
the leaves bear a striking resemblance to foliage of the type
_Cordaites borassifolius_; the lamina is 30 cm. long and attains a
breadth of 3 cm., the apex is acuminate and slightly contracted towards
the broad concave base. My former comparison of these Stonesfield
leaves with the long pinnae of _Ceratozamia mexicana_ seemed to be
supported by Phillips’s type-specimen of _Palaeozamia longifolia_.
It may be that the supposed pinnae in Phillips’s type are spirally
disposed leaves: if this is the case the specimen may be a fragment
of a _Podozamites_; its specific identity with the larger detached
specimens, though probable, cannot be demonstrated. Some leaves figured
by Zigno[745] from Jurassic rocks of Italy as _Yuccites Schimperianus_
may be identical with _P. megaphylla_.
_Pelourdea mirabilis_ (Velenovský ex Corda +MS.+).
The generic name _Krammera_, suggested by Corda, was employed by
Velenovský[746] for large _Cordaites_-like leaves from the Lower
Cretaceous of Bohemia, for casts of cones regarded by him as stems, and
for fruit-like bodies. The leaves, previously described as _Flabellaria
chamaeropifolia_ Goepp., _Dammara albens_ Presl, etc., bear a close
resemblance to the large broadly linear leaves of _Cordaites_; the
lamina reaches a length of 40 cm. and between the veins occur 1–4 finer
striations. The fossils identified by Velenovský as stems bearing
crowded imbricate scales, which he regarded as the persistent bases
of _Krammera_ leaves, are probably cones; they agree very closely in
size and shape, also in the form of the scales, with cones of _Agathis_
and some other recent Conifers. As the designation _Krammera_ was
instituted primarily for cones and not leaves the name _Pelourdea_ is
substituted for it.
=Niponophyllum.= Stopes and Fujii.
_Niponophyllum cordaitiforme_ Stopes and Fujii.
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