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Panxia gabata
Panxia gabata Y. Wang, C.M. Berry Palaeoworld, 15(1): 56. Jan 2006
- Name
- Panxia gabata
- Rank
- Species
- Generic Name
- [Genus] Panxia
- Authors (Pub.)
- Wang Y.
Berry C. M.
- Publication
- Morphology of a non-pseudosporochnalean cladoxylopsid from the Middle Devonian of Yunnan, South China [2006/1]
- Journal
- Palaeoworld
- Volume
- 15
- Issue
- 1
- Page number
- 56
- Year
- 2006
- Fossil Status
- stems (with sporangia)
- Stratigraphy
- Givetian
- Strat. comment
- Huaning Formation
- Location
- Panxi, near Huaning, Yunnan Province, China
- Paleoregion
- China (South)
Data for Holotypus
- Repository
- Nanjing Institute of Geology and Palaeontology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Nanjing, China
- Repository Number
- PB9403
- Diagnosis
- Stems 14–25 mm width, narrowest just above departure of branches widening distally up to departure of next branch; lacking enations or ornament. First order branches decurrent, inserted without obvious geometrical regularity, 5–12mmin diameter at base, up to at least 190mmlong, straight; second order branches inserted on first order in alternate to opposite pattern, distally forked with slightly recurved, somewhat blunt tips; ultimate units 1–1.4mm wide, often abaxially recurved, terminally forked with recurved tips; overall architecture of sterile lateral branches essentially planate, tending towards pinnate. Fertile first order branches 4.5–7.5mm in width, bearing three-dimensionally inserted second order branches, 0.5–2mm wide, to which are attached more or less discoidal sporangia, 1.2–1.6mm×0.9–1.3 mm, on long, narrow, probably bifurcated or trifurcated stalks which widen at the attachment to the sporangium.
