Wolfeniana, a new replacement name for fossil Pteridophyte genus Gillespiea Erwin & Rothwell (Stauropteridales)
Author
Deshmukh, Umakant Bhoopati
0000-0002-7489-7645
Department of Botany, Janata Mahavidyalaya, Chandrapur - 442 401, Maharashtra, India. & deshmukhumakant 979 @ gmail. com; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0002 - 7489 - 7645
deshmukhumakant979@gmail.com
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Phytotaxa
2022
2022-09-28
566
2
249
250
http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/phytotaxa.566.2.11
journal article
10.11646/phytotaxa.566.2.11
1179-3163
7119073
Wolfeniana randolphensis
(Erwin & Rothwell) U.B. Deshmukh
comb. nov.
Basionym:
Gillespiea randolphensis
Erwin & Rothwell
in Canad. J. Bot., 67(10): 3064. 1989.
Holotype
:
Compression-limonitized specimen No.193-59 (Figs. 25–31); Nos.
8452–8485 in
the Paleobotanical collections, Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago. (Previously in Paleobotanical Herbarium, Department of Botany, Ohio University (
OUPH
). Athens, USA.)
Paratypes
:
Specimens Nos. 49-6 (Fig. 9), 49-7 (Fig. 11), 49-24 (Figs. 14–16), 49-33 (Fig. 10), 49-40 (Fig. 19), 49-59 (Figs. 17, 18, 21), 80-9 (Fig. l), 192-23 (Figs. 12, 13), 193-3 (Fig. 6), 193-34 (Figs. 7, 8) and 193-9 (no figure); OUPH Nos. 8541–8543, 8543, 8487–8489, 8546–8547, 8565–8566, 8575–8584, 8540, 8668-8671, 8452, 8744, 8740.
Type
Locality:
Road
cut located
10 km
east of the intersection of
U.S.
Rte.
33 and
W.V. Rte.
219 on south side of
U.S.
Rte.
33 near
Elkins
,
Randolph Co.
,
West Virginia
,
USA
. (38054’25”N, 790 ‘43’42”W).
Stratigraphic position:
Hampshire Formation, Cassadaga Stage, Chautauquan Series.
Age:
Upper Devonian.