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Fossil specimen : OUM J.01115 – Holotype

Taxonomy
Taxonomic Group

Kingdom Plantae

  Phylum Pinophyta

    Class Pinopsida

      Order Pinales

Fossil Name Brachyphyllum expansum (Sternberg, 1823)
Type Status Holotype
Name History

Brachyphyllum expansum (Sternberg, 1823) – See Cleal & Rees (2003)

Brachyphyllum expansum (Sternberg, 1823) – See Kvaček & Straková (1997)

Brachyphyllum expansum (Sternberg, 1823) – See Kendall (1949)

Thuytes expansus Sternberg, 1823 – See Seward (1904)

Thuytes articulatus Sternberg, 1823 – See Morris (1843): Holotype

Thuytes articulatus Sternberg, 1823 – See Phillips (1871): Holotype

Thuites articulatus Sternberg, 1823 – See Sternberg (1823): Holotype

Provenance
Registration No. J.01115
Collector Name not available
Donor or Associated Person Old OUM Collection; Old Ashmolean Collection; Buckland, W.
Held By Oxford University Museum of Natural History Logo Oxford University Museum of Natural History
Comments
Location
Country England
Locality Stonesfield, Oxfordshire
Grid Reference Available from host institution
Stratigraphy
Rock Unit Stonesfield Slate
Biozone Not available
Geological Age

Bathonian Age (Jurassic Period) (166.1 – 168.3 Ma B.P.)

References
References

CLEAL, C.J. and REES, P.M. 2003. The Middle Jurassic Flora from Stonesfield, Oxfordshire, UK. Palaeontology, 46 (4), 739-801. pp. 770 - 771, 774

KENDALL, M.W. 1949. On Brachyphyllum expansum (Sternberg) Seward, and its cone. Ann. Mag. nat. Hist., Series 12, ii, 308-320. p. 308

KVAČEK, J. and STRAKOVÁ, M. 1997. Catalogue of fossil plants described in works of Kaspar M. Sternberg. National Museum Prague, 201 pp., pls A, 1-67. p. 39

MORRIS, J. 1843. A catalogue of British Fossils . . . London: J. Van Voorst, i-x, 222 pp. p. 24

PHILLIPS, J. 1871. Geology of Oxford and the Valley of the Thames. Clarendon Press, Oxford, xxiv + 523 pp., diagrs I-CCVII. pp. 171, 172; diag. XXXI, fig. 1

SEWARD, A.C. 1904. Catalogue of the Mesozoic Plants in the Department of Geology British Museum (Natural History). The Jurassic Flora: II - Liassic and Oolitic floras of England. London: Trustees of the British Museum. pp. 144 - 145

STERNBERG, K.M. 1823. Versuch einer geognostisch-botanischen darstellung der Flora der Vorwelt, III. Fleischer, Regensburg, 39 pp., pls XXVII-XXXIX. pp. 36, 39; tab. XXXIII, fig. 3

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