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Salopella allenii
Salopella allenii D. Edwards, J.B. Richardson Palaeontology, 1974, 17(2): 315. Sep 1974
- Name
- Salopella allenii
- Rank
- Species
- Generic Name
- [Genus] Salopella
- Authors (Pub.)
- Edwards D.
Richardson J. B.
- Publication
- Lower Devonian (Dittonian) plants from the Welsh Borderland [1974/9]
- Journal
- Palaeontology
- Annee/Jahrgang
- 1974
- Volume
- 17
- Issue
- 2
- Page number
- 315
- Year
- 1974
- Parent Taxon
- [Genus] Salopella
- Stratigraphy
- Lower Devonian
- Location
- Newton Dingle, Brown Clee Hill, Shropshire, England.
Data for Holotypus
- Repository
- National Museum of Wales, Cardiff, U.K.
- Repository Number
- 70.14G.3a & b
- Diagnosis
- Plant at least 24 mm high with naked dichotomously branching axes up to 2.0 mm wide in the basal regions and 1.1 mm wide below the sporangia. Branching angle small (c. 15°). Dichotomous branching immediately below sporangia, which are long and narrow; 2.0 mm at widest point in mid-region and up to 9.0 mm long. Spores azonate with thin exine variously covered with probable tapetal residue.
