144 research outputs found
A probable pteridosperm with eremopterid foliage from the Allegheny Group of northern Pennsylvania
Compressed fossilized foliage most comparable to that of Eremopteris zamioides (Bertrand) Kidston occurs in shale associated with coal in the Allegheny Group in northern Pennsylvania. In association with this foliage are abundant samaropsid seeds and small, apparently microsporangiate organs. Although close proximity of disconnected plant parts as fossils is not evidence in itself that these plant parts were originally connected, it is tempting to believe that these leaves, seeds, and microsporangia were parts of the same species. Furthermore, there have been a number of previous reports associating samaropsid seeds with Eremopteris. Additional frondlike structures with the same basic construction as the vegetative eremopterid leaves have been found; these offer information concerning the possible mode of attachment of the fertile organs
A new Triassic cycad and its phyletic implications
Upper Triassic beds in North Carolina yield excellently preserved compressions of ferns, cycadophytes and conifers. Among the cycadophyte remains are leaves comparable to those of the genus Pseudoctenis attached to a slender, elongated stem fragment. Other stem remains show bases of petioles with a similar arrangement. Cuticular analysis of laminae, rachises and stem surfaces suggests the existence of a member of the Cycadales with loosely arranged pinnately compound fronds on a slender stem, with cataphylls and terminal cones. Although Cycadales probably originated before the Triassic, the growth habit of only a very small number of Triassic members is known. This discovery is significant in allowing the reconstruction of one of the oldest members of the order and presents evidence that its growth habit is unlike that of later Cycadales. The slender stem and loosely spaced compound leaves point to a pteridosperm ancestry
The Shoot Apex of Callistophyton poroxyloides
285-299http://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/48300/2/ID140.pd
Dynamic Carboniferous tropical forests: new views of plant function and potential for physiological forcing of climate
Peer Reviewedhttps://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/138385/1/nph14700_am.pdfhttps://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/138385/2/nph14700.pd
A bizarre Palissya ovulate organ from Upper Triassic strata of the Zixing coal field, Hunan Province, China
stramonium
Datura stramonium Linnaeusjimsonweed;moonflower;mad apple;Jamestown weed;devil's-apple;stramonium jimsonweed;purple thorn-apple;common thorn-apple;stinkwortstramoine commune;stramoine;dature;herbe aux sorciers;pomme épineuse;datura stramoinedump, North Amherstdum
A Palaeostachya From The Pennsylvanian Of Kansas
Peer Reviewedhttps://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/141768/1/ajb211151.pd
The Medullosae - Structure and Relationships
171 p.Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1954.U of I OnlyRestricted to the U of I community idenfinitely during batch ingest of legacy ETD
A probable pteridosperm microsporangiate fructification from the Pennsylvanian of Illinois
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