Fossil specimen : OUM J.21796 – Holotype
| Taxonomic Group |
Kingdom Plantae Phylum Cycadophyta Class Cycadopsida Order Bennettitales |
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| Fossil Name | Ptilophyllum pectiniformis (Sternberg, 1823) |
| Type Status | Holotype |
| Name History | Ptilophyllum pectiniformis (Sternberg, 1823) – See Cleal & Rees (2003): Holotype Polypodiolites pectiniformis Sternberg, 1823 – See Kvaček & Straková (1997): Holotype Ptilophyllum pectinoides (Phillips, 1829) – See Harris (1969) Ptilophyllum pecten (Phillips, 1829) – See Seward (1917) Williamsonia pecten (Phillips, 1829) – See Seward (1904) Palaeozamia pectinata – See Phillips (1871) Polypodiolites pectiniformis Sternberg, 1823 – See Brongniart (1828): Holotype Polypodiolites pectiniformis Sternberg, 1823 – See Sternberg (1823): Holotype |
| Registration No. | J.21796 |
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| Collector | Name not available |
| Donor or Associated Person | Buckland, W. |
| Held By |
 Oxford University Museum of Natural History
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| Comments |
| Country | England |
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| Locality | Stonesfield, Oxfordshire |
| Grid Reference | Available from host institution |
| Rock Unit | Stonesfield Slate |
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| Biozone | Not available |
| Geological Age |
Bathonian Age (Jurassic Period) (166.1 – 168.3 Ma B.P.) |
| References | BRONGNIART, A. 1828. Prodrome d'une histoire des végétaux fossiles. Levrault , Paris, viii + 223 pp. p. 49 CLEAL, C.J. and REES, P.M. 2003. The Middle Jurassic Flora from Stonesfield, Oxfordshire, UK. Palaeontology, 46 (4), 739-801. pp. 752, 755 - 756; pl. 3, fig. 4 HARRIS, T.M. 1969. The Yorkshire Jurassic Flora III, Bennettitales. Trustees of the British Museum (Nat. Hist.), London, 127-135. p. 56 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. 118 PHILLIPS, J. 1871. Geology of Oxford and the Valley of the Thames. Clarendon Press, Oxford, xxiv + 523 pp., diagrs I-CCVII. p. 171; diagr. XXX, fig. 2 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. 80, 107 - 108 SEWARD, A.C. 1917. Fossil Plants, a text-book for students of Botany and Geology, III: Pteridospermeae, Cycadofilices, Cordaitales, Cycadophyta. Cambridge University Press. pp. 522 - 523; fig. 595 STERNBERG, K.M. 1823. Versuch einer geognostisch-botanischen darstellung der Flora der Vorwelt, III. Fleischer, Regensburg, 39 pp., pls XXVII-XXXIX. pp. 36, 39; pl. XXXIII, fig. 1 |
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