Paralnoxylon Doweld, 2021
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https://doi.org/ 10.11646/phytotaxa.524.2.3 |
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https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5724234 |
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https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03CA878D-2461-6A33-DF8F-FD92FAF1FB5E |
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Paralnoxylon Doweld |
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nom. nov. |
Paralnoxylon Doweld , nom. nov.
≡ Cantia Stopes, Cat. Mesoz. Pl. Dept. Geol. Brit. Mus. (Nat. Hist.) 6(2): 260. 1915, nom. illeg. non Kantia Pia, Beitr. Paläontol. Geol. View in CoL Österr.- Ungarn. Orients 25: 32, 45. 1912 [Algae: Chlorophycota: Dasycladaceae View in CoL ].
IFPNI registration LSID: 7F14BA45-9B32-C165-3C9E-9872118A5221
Type — Paralnoxylon arborescens (Stopes) Doweld , comb. nov.
≡ Cantia arborescens Stopes, Cat. Mesoz. Pl. Dept. Geol. Brit. Mus. (Nat. Hist.) 6(2): 260. 1915.
Holotype — U.K., England, Kent, near Ightham ( V.12321 and slides V.12321 a, b, c, d, e, f, Natural History Museum, London , U.K.) – figured: pl. 26-28; text-figs. 76-78.
IFPNI registration LSID: 4F47A7CF-2BB8-3E5A-9568-2F9E85A81FE1.
Stratigraphy: Palaeocene (Thanetian) [see Crawley (2001: 23) for the correction of the initially erroneous Cretaceous (Aptian) age].
Etymology: by superficial likeness to the woods of extant Alnus Mill.
The fossil-genus Cantia Stopes was described on the basis of fossil woods from the erroneously thought Upper Cretaceous (Aptian) sediments of England; Crawley (2001) presented the solid new evidence that these fossil remains come from the younger, Palaeocene (Thanetian) sediments. However, the generic name is a later illegitimate (para)homonym of fossil algal genus Kantia Pia (1912) of the family Dasycladaceae . Thus, a new replacement name for the fossil wood generic name related to extant genus Alnus L. is necessary and here proposed— Paralnoxylon nom. nov.
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Paralnoxylon Doweld
Doweld, Alexander B. 2021 |
Dasycladaceae
Kutzing 1843 |