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<emphasis id="B95B7557FFBAFFEEDA8BF99BFEB9FE92" bold="true" box="[251,364,245,269]" italics="true" pageId="6" pageNumber="15">Sagenaria</emphasis>
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1820
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STERNBERG
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1822a
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BRONGNIART
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, p. 209 (nom. illegit.).
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Ty p e. Designated here.
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, p. 23
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, pl. 6, fig. 2; pl. 8, fig. 1; Loc.: Radnice Member (upper Bashkirian Stage), Radnice, the
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; photographically refigured by
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: pl. 2, fig. 1).
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<paragraph id="8B90A945FFBAFFEEDAD6FB53FD28FDCB" blockId="6.[128,765,573,629]" box="[166,765,573,597]" pageId="6" pageNumber="15">P l a n t F o s s i l N a m e s R e g i s t r y N u m b e r.</paragraph>
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PFN000143 (for
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designation).
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<paragraph id="8B90A945FFBAFFEEDAD6FBE3FF0CFC9B" blockId="6.[128,768,652,772]" pageId="6" pageNumber="15">D i a g n o s i s. “Tiges sans articulations ni cannelures, couvertes de tubercles rhomboïdaux, coniques, disposes en quinconce, pourtant à leur sommet une impression en forme disque.”</paragraph>
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D i s c u s s i o n.
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used this generic name for
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sect.
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(
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had illegitimately referred to these sections as “tribes”).
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also included two new species within the genus: “
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<emphasis id="B95B7557FFBAFFEEDBD3FAF2FDB3FC2C" box="[419,614,923,947]" italics="true" pageId="6" pageNumber="15">Sagenaria coelata</emphasis>
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and “
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<emphasis id="B95B7557FFBAFFEEDB6DFAD2FE2BFC4C" box="[285,510,955,979]" italics="true" pageId="6" pageNumber="15">Sagenaria ophiurus</emphasis>
<bibRefCitation id="EFBED4B4FFBAFFEED86EFAD2FD29FC4C" author="Brongniart, A." box="[542,764,955,979]" pageId="6" pageNumber="15" pagination="203 - 240" refId="ref15150" refString="Brongniart, A. (1822 a): Sur la classification et la distribution des vegetaux fossiles en general, et sur ceux des terrains de sediment superieur en particulier. Introduction, Chapitre I. - Memoires du Museum d'Histoire Naturelle, 8: 203 - 240, pls 1 - 4." type="journal article" year="1822">BRONGNIART, 1822a</bibRefCitation>
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. However, these latter two names were probably not validly published here as they were unaccompanied by diagnoses; an illustration with a close-up of the shoot was given for
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<emphasis id="B95B7557FFBAFFEEDAF1FD52FF39FBCC" box="[129,236,1083,1107]" italics="true" pageId="6" pageNumber="15">S. coelata</emphasis>
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but this does not show the diagnostic characters sufficiently to count as an “illustration with analysis” to validate the species epithet under ICN, Art. 38.79. The only previous proposal to typify
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<emphasis id="B95B7557FFBAFFEEDBACFDF2FD9FFB2C" box="[476,586,1180,1203]" italics="true" pageId="6" pageNumber="15">Sagenaria</emphasis>
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was by
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with “
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<emphasis id="B95B7557FFBAFFEEDB65FDD2FE55FB4C" box="[277,384,1211,1235]" italics="true" pageId="6" pageNumber="15">S. coelata</emphasis>
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” but this has to be rejected as that species was not validly published in 1822. A
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for
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<emphasis id="B95B7557FFBAFFEEDAF1FD92FF3AFA8C" box="[129,239,1276,1299]" italics="true" pageId="6" pageNumber="15">Sagenaria</emphasis>
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must therefore be selected from the species listed by
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under
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sect.
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, as Brongniart was clearly (albeit indirectly) including them within the genus (ICN, Arts 10.2, 10.3). In order to simplify the situation, we designate here
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<emphasis id="B95B7557FFBAFFEEDB95FC15FD2AFA0C" box="[485,767,1403,1427]" italics="true" pageId="6" pageNumber="15">Lepidodendron aculeatum</emphasis>
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as
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of
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<emphasis id="B95B7557FFBAFFEEDBA7FCF2FD90FA2C" box="[471,581,1436,1459]" italics="true" pageId="6" pageNumber="15">Sagenaria</emphasis>
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it is conspecific with one of the specimens illustrated by
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: pl. 12, fig, 6 as “
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<emphasis id="B95B7557FFBAFFEEDB35FCB2FE78FA6C" box="[325,429,1499,1523]" italics="true" pageId="6" pageNumber="15">S. coelata</emphasis>
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”).
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The genus
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<emphasis id="B95B7557FFBAFFEEDB40FC95FE07F98C" box="[304,466,1531,1555]" italics="true" pageId="6" pageNumber="15">Lepidodendron</emphasis>
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was originally based on external morphological characters of the stem as seen in adpressions and casts. However, subsequent work on coal ball specimens has resulted in the stems being subdivided into a number of other fossil-genera based on anatomical features, including
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<emphasis id="B95B7557FFBAFFEEDB15FFF5FDF1F92C" box="[357,548,1691,1715]" italics="true" pageId="6" pageNumber="15">Diaphorodendron</emphasis>
<bibRefCitation id="EFBED4B4FFBAFFEED847FFF2FD2EF92C" author="DiMichele, W. A." box="[567,763,1691,1715]" pageId="6" pageNumber="15" pagination="453 - 458" refId="ref17245" refString="DiMichele, W. A. (1985): Diaphorodenron gen. nov. a segregate from Lepidodendron (Pennsylvannian Age). - Systematic Botany, 10: 453 - 458. https: // doi. org / 10.2307 / 2419138" type="journal article" year="1985">DIMICHELE, 1985</bibRefCitation>
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,
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<emphasis id="B95B7557FFBAFFEEDAF0FFD2FEE0F94B" box="[128,309,1724,1748]" italics="true" pageId="6" pageNumber="15">Synchysidendron</emphasis>
<bibRefCitation id="EFBED4B4FFBAFFEEDB3EFFD2FD69F94B" author="DiMichele, W. A. &amp; Bateman, R. M." box="[334,700,1724,1748]" pageId="6" pageNumber="15" pagination="605 - 617" refId="ref17289" refString="DiMichele, W. A., Bateman, R. M. (1992): Diaphorodendraceae, fam. nov. (Lycopsida: Carboniferous): systematics and evolutionary relationships of Diaphorodendron and Synchysidendron, gen. nov. - American Journal of Botany, 79: 605 - 617. https: // doi. org / 10.1002 / j. 1537 - 2197.1992. tb 14602. x" type="journal article" year="1992">DIMICHELE et BATEMAN, 1992</bibRefCitation>
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, and
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<emphasis id="B95B7557FFBAFFEEDAF1FFB2FEFFF96B" box="[129,298,1756,1780]" italics="true" pageId="6" pageNumber="15">Hizemodendron</emphasis>
<bibRefCitation id="EFBED4B4FFBAFFEEDB49FFB2FD5EF96B" author="Bateman, R. M. &amp; DiMichele, W. A." box="[313,651,1756,1780]" pageId="6" pageNumber="15" pagination="195 - 205" refId="ref14939" refString="Bateman, R. M., DiMichele, W. A. (1991): Hizemodendron, gen. nov., a pseudoherbaceous segregate of Lepidodendron (Pennsylvanian): Phylogenetic context for evolutionary changes in lycopsid growth and architecture. - Systematic Botany, 16: 195 - 205. https: // doi. org / 10.2307 / 2418983" type="journal article" year="1991">BATEMAN et DIMICHELE, 1991</bibRefCitation>
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. A fourth fossil-genus was recognised on anatomical characteristics in coal ball fossils, based round the species
<taxonomicName id="4C2FD2C6FFBAFFEED82DFE72FE8AF8CB" authority="WATSON, 1907" authorityName="WATSON" authorityYear="1907" class="Lycopodiopsida" family="Lepidodendraceae" genus="Lepidodendron" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF" kingdom="Plantae" order="Lepidodendrales" pageId="6" pageNumber="15" phylum="Tracheophyta" rank="species" species="hickii">
<emphasis id="B95B7557FFBAFFEED82DFE72FF69F8CB" italics="true" pageId="6" pageNumber="15">Lepidodendron hickii</emphasis>
<bibRefCitation id="EFBED4B4FFBAFFEEDAB3FE52FE8AF8CB" author="Watson, D. M. S." box="[195,351,1852,1876]" pageId="6" pageNumber="15" refId="ref21357" refString="Watson, D. M. S. (1907): On a confusion of two species (Lepidodendron Harcourtii Witham and L. Hickii sp. nov.) under L. Harcourtii Witham in Williamson's XIX Memoir; with a description of L. Hickii sp. nov. - Memoirs and Proceedings of the Manchester Literary and Philosophical Society, 51 (3, 13): 22 pp." type="book" year="1907">WATSON, 1907</bibRefCitation>
</taxonomicName>
.
<bibRefCitation id="EFBED4B4FFBAFFEEDB1AFE52FDFEF8CB" author="DiMichele, W. A." box="[362,555,1852,1876]" pageId="6" pageNumber="15" pagination="317 - 333" refId="ref17205" refString="DiMichele, W. A. (1983): Lepidodendron hickii and generic delimitation in Carboniferous lepidodendrid lycopods. - Systematic Botany, 8: 317 - 333. https: // doi. org / 10.2307 / 2418485" type="journal article" year="1983">DiMichele (1983)</bibRefCitation>
stated that
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<emphasis id="B95B7557FFBAFFEED8D7FE52FD2AF8CB" box="[679,767,1852,1876]" italics="true" pageId="6" pageNumber="15">L. hickii</emphasis>
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has deep ligule pits and infrafoliar parichnos, with the larger cushions having a relatively broad lower surface and a low keel with plications, and is very similar to the leaf cushions of the
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species of
<taxonomicName id="4C2FD2C6FFBAFFEEDB14FED2FDD3F84B" box="[356,518,1980,2004]" class="Lycopodiopsida" family="Lepidodendraceae" genus="Lepidodendron" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF" kingdom="Plantae" order="Lepidodendrales" pageId="6" pageNumber="15" phylum="Tracheophyta" rank="genus">
<emphasis id="B95B7557FFBAFFEEDB14FED2FDD3F84B" box="[356,518,1980,2004]" italics="true" pageId="6" pageNumber="15">Lepidodendron</emphasis>
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(the adpression species
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<emphasis id="B95B7557FFBAFFEEDAF0FEB2FF5AF86C" box="[128,143,2012,2035]" italics="true" pageId="6" pageNumber="15">L</emphasis>
.
<emphasis id="B95B7557FFBAFFEEDAD0FEB2FEDAF86B" box="[160,271,2012,2036]" italics="true" pageId="6" pageNumber="15">aculeatum</emphasis>
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).
<bibRefCitation id="EFBED4B4FFBAFFEEDB59FEB2FD14F86C" author="Bateman, R. M. &amp; DiMichele, W. A." box="[297,705,2011,2036]" pageId="6" pageNumber="15" pagination="195 - 205" refId="ref14939" refString="Bateman, R. M., DiMichele, W. A. (1991): Hizemodendron, gen. nov., a pseudoherbaceous segregate of Lepidodendron (Pennsylvanian): Phylogenetic context for evolutionary changes in lycopsid growth and architecture. - Systematic Botany, 16: 195 - 205. https: // doi. org / 10.2307 / 2418983" type="journal article" year="1991">Bateman and DiMichele (1991: 195)</bibRefCitation>
went further and stated that
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<emphasis id="B95B7557FFBAFFEEDB1DFE92FEA9F78C" box="[365,380,2044,2067]" italics="true" pageId="6" pageNumber="15">L</emphasis>
.
<emphasis id="B95B7557FFBAFFEEDBF9FE92FE11F78B" box="[393,452,2044,2068]" italics="true" pageId="6" pageNumber="15">hickii</emphasis>
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is the anatomically preserved equivalent of
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<emphasis id="B95B7557FFBAFFEEDB65F172FEF1F7AC" box="[277,292,2076,2099]" italics="true" pageId="6" pageNumber="15">L</emphasis>
.
<emphasis id="B95B7557FFBAFFEEDB43F172FE77F7AB" box="[307,418,2076,2100]" italics="true" pageId="6" pageNumber="15">aculeatum</emphasis>
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, and as a consequence,
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<emphasis id="B95B7557FFBAFFEED8D7F172FD2AF7AB" box="[679,767,2076,2100]" italics="true" pageId="6" pageNumber="15">L. hickii</emphasis>
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would have to be regarded as a later heterotypic synonym of
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<emphasis id="B95B7557FFBAFFEED93BF9D7FC03FF4F" box="[843,982,184,208]" italics="true" pageId="6" pageNumber="15">L. aculeatum</emphasis>
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and so supressed.
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This more refined generic classification undoubtedly provides a better systematic resolution of the anatomically preserved fossils but there are problems when trying to use it with the more commonly found adpressions and casts of the stems. One of the characters used for distinguishing these fossil-genera (the presence or absence of infrafoliar parichnos) can sometimes be recognised in adpressions and casts, but relying entirely on just this one feature as a diagnostic feature may give a false impression of certainty with such fossils and make comparisons much more difficult (
<bibRefCitation id="EFBED4B4FFBAFFEED9DEFB73FB57FDAA" author="Laveine, J. - P. &amp; Zhang, S. Z. &amp; Liu, L. J. &amp; Gu, F. B. &amp; Liu, Y. A. &amp; Wen, J. G. &amp; Lemoigne, Y." box="[942,1154,541,565]" pageId="6" pageNumber="15" pagination="567 - 651" refId="ref19065" refString="Laveine, J. - P., Zhang, S. Z., Liu, L. J., Gu, F. B., Liu, Y. A., Wen, J. G., Lemoigne, Y. (2003): The Late Carboniferous floras of the Delingha area (Wulan County, Qinghai Province, Northwest China). - Revue de Paleobiologie, 22: 567 - 651." type="journal article" year="2003">Laveine et al. 2003</bibRefCitation>
). In our view, a better solution is to have separate taxonomies for the adpressions / casts and for the anatomically preserved fossils. Since the
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of
<taxonomicName id="4C2FD2C6FFBAFFEED91AFB10FBD9FD09" box="[874,1036,638,662]" class="Lycopodiopsida" family="Lepidodendraceae" genus="Lepidodendron" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF" kingdom="Plantae" order="Lepidodendrales" pageId="6" pageNumber="15" phylum="Tracheophyta" rank="genus">
<emphasis id="B95B7557FFBAFFEED91AFB10FBD9FD09" box="[874,1036,638,662]" italics="true" pageId="6" pageNumber="15">Lepidodendron</emphasis>
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is an adpression, that name should only be used for such fossils, and an alternative generic name is needed for the group of anatomically-preserved species centred on “
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<emphasis id="B95B7557FFBAFFEED9BDFB8EFBBAFD67" box="[973,1135,736,760]" italics="true" pageId="6" pageNumber="15">Lepidodendron</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
<taxonomicName id="4C2FD2C6FFBAFFEEDEF2FB8EFB68FD67" authorityName="WATSON" authorityYear="1907" box="[1154,1213,736,760]" class="Lycopodiopsida" family="Lepidodendraceae" genus="Lepidodendron" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF" kingdom="Plantae" order="Lepidodendrales" pageId="6" pageNumber="15" phylum="Tracheophyta" rank="species" species="hickii">
<emphasis id="B95B7557FFBAFFEEDEF2FB8EFB68FD67" box="[1154,1213,736,760]" italics="true" pageId="6" pageNumber="15">hickii</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
.
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