Palaeontology: Holotypes & Lectotypes

Sporathylacium salopense

Edwards, Axe & Mendez 2001
Accession number: NMW 94.60G.11.1 - .3
Collection: Holotypes
Chronostratigraphy: PALAEOZOIC , DEVONIAN , Lower Devonian , Lochkovian Stage
Lithostratigraphy: Old Red Sandstone Facies , Ditton Group
Biostratigraphy: Micrornatus-newportensis miospore Biozone
Locality: ../.. , Europe , United Kingdom , England , Shropshire
References:
  • Edwards, D. 1996,New insights into early land ecosystems: a glimpse of a Lilliputian world. Rev. Pal. Pa. 90 pp.159-174, Figured reference, p.164 pl.2 figs.1-5
  • Edwards, D., Abbott, G. D. & Raven, J. A. 1996 Cuticles of early land plants: a palaeoecophysiological evaluation. In: Kerstiens, G. 1996 Plant Cuticles: an integrated functional approach. BIOS Scientific Publishers, Oxford. Chapter 1, pp.1-31
  • Wellman, C. H., Edwards, D. & Axe, L. 1996 Curation of exceptionally preserved early land plant fossils: problems and solutions. Curator 39 208-216
  • Edwards, D. ,Kerp, H. &Hass, H. 1998, Stomata in early land plants: an anatomical and ecophysiological approach. J. exp. bot. 49 pp. 255-278.
  • Wellman, C. H. & Axe, L. 1999, Extracting plant mesofossils and megafossils by bulk acid maceration. In: Jones,T.P. and Rowe, N. P. (eds) Fossil plants and spores: modern tecbniques. Geological Society, London. 1999. Chapter 3 p. 11-14.
  • Edwards, D., Axe, L. & Mendez, E. 2001. A new genus for isolated bivalved sporangia with thickened margins from the Lower Devonian of the Welsh Borderland Bot. J. Lin. Soc. 137 pp.297-310