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Rhodeopteridium phillipsii
Rhodeopteridium phillipsii Leary, Pfefferk. Circ. Illinois State Geol. Surv., (500): 32. 1977
- Name
- Rhodeopteridium phillipsii
- Rank
- Species
- Generic Name
- [Genus] Rhodeopteridium
- Authors (Pub.)
- Leary R. L.
Pfefferkorn H. W.
- Publication
- An early Pennsylvanian flora with Megalopteris and Noeggerathiales from west-central Illinois [1977]
- Journal
- Circular / Illinois State Geological Survey
- Issue
- 500
- Page number
- 32
- Year
- 1977
- Fossil Status
- foliage (fertile)
- Stratigraphy
- Bashkirian
- Strat. comment
- Namurian B
- Location
- Rushville, northeastern Brown County, Illinois, USA
- Paleoregion
- Laurussia (Laurentia)
Data for Holotypus
- Repository
- Illinois State Museum, Springfield, USA
- Repository Number
- ISM 416527
Data for Paratypus
- Repository
- Illinois State Museum, Springfield, USA
- Repository Number
- 416530
- Diagnosis
- Deeply divided leaf at least three times pinnatifid; alate axis; pinnules elongated and strongly lobed; lobes either oval, elongated oval, or wedge-shaped with a long side attached to the axis ; one vein per lobe. Pinnules 5 to 9 mm long and 1.5 to 2 mm wide; about five lobes per pinnule. Pinnules distant from each other, rarely overlapping. Fructifications (sporangia ?, seeds ?) occupying the end of a lobe. They are bean shaped and 0.5 by 0.7 mm.
