Two new species of sphenophyllalean strobili with in situ spores are proposed from the Radnice Basin of the western and central Bohemian Carboniferous continental basins of the Czech Republic. Bowmanites brasensis sp. nov. from Břasy (Matylda Mine) and B. pseudoaquensis sp. nov. from Ovčín locality are determined mainly on the basis of their spores, which are about 100 µm in diameter. The thick-walled exine of the miospores is laevigate or sometimes very finely scabrate on the proximal contact area. Spores resemble the dispersed species Punctatisporites obesus. Cones of B. brasensis and B. pseudoaquensis are organically connected with stems having prominent blade leaves and represent a new group of sphenophyllalean strobili.
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1 December 2008
Two New Carboniferous Fertile Sphenophylls and their Spores from the Czech Republic
Milan Libertín,
Jiří Bek,
Jana Drábková
Acta Palaeontologica Polonica
Vol. 53 • No. 4
December 2008
Vol. 53 • No. 4
December 2008
Bowmanites
Carboniferous
Czech Republic
Pennsylvanian
Punctatisporites
Sphenophyllales
spores