Palaeontology: Holotypes & Lectotypes

Culullitheca richardsonii

Wellman, Edwards & Axe 1998
Accession number: NMW 96.11G.6.1 -.3
Collection: Holotypes
Chronostratigraphy: PALAEOZOIC , DEVONIAN , Lower Devonian , Lochkovian Stage
Lithostratigraphy: Old Red Sandstone Facies , Ditton Group
Biostratigraphy: Micrornatus-newportensis miospore Biozone
Locality: ../.. , Europe , United Kingdom , England , Shropshire
References:
  • Wellman, C. H., Edwards, D. & Axe, L. 1998a, Permanent dyads in sporangia and spore masses from the Lower Devonian of the Welsh Borderland .Bot. J. Linn. Soc. 127, pp.117-147., Type reference, p.130, figures 26-35 p.132, figures 36-40
  • Edwards, D. 1997, Charting diversity in early land plants: Some challenges for the nex millennium. Chapter1 pp3-26. In: Iwatsuki & Raven (Eds.) 1997, Evolution and diversification of land plants, Springer Verlag, Tokyo
  • Edwards, D., Wellman, C. H. & Axe, L. 1998, The fossil record of early land plants and interrelationships between primitive embryophytes: too little and too late? Chapter 2 pp.15-43. In Bates, J.W., Ashton, N.W. & Duckett, J.G. (Eds.) 1998 Bryology for the Twenty-first century, British Btyological Society.