Type Specimens of Fossil Plants in the Paleobotany Collection, Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia: Revised Catalogue

The Paleobotany Collection at the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia contains the certain and suspected type specimens of 78 fossil plant taxa, published between 1855 and 1983. This catalogue contains data on the type specimens of taxa erected by W. Bock, A. P. Brown, A. T. King, L. Lesquer...

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Published in:Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia 2000-04, Vol.150, p.315-328
Main Authors: Spamer, Earle E., Lendemer, James C.
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Coal
Fossil plants
Holotypes
Paleobotany
Phytoliths
Plant collections
Road intersections
Syntypes
Taxa
Type specimens
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Summary:The Paleobotany Collection at the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia contains the certain and suspected type specimens of 78 fossil plant taxa, published between 1855 and 1983. This catalogue contains data on the type specimens of taxa erected by W. Bock, A. P. Brown, A. T. King, L. Lesquereux, D. L. MacNeal, J. R. Thomasson, E. T. Wherry, and H. C. Wood, Jr. Geographic and stratigraphic distributions of these specimens are the Carboniferous of eastern U.S.A. and England, and U.S.A. localities of Cretaceous, Triassic, and Miocene strata.
ISSN:0097-3157
1938-5293