ASPECTS OF PERMIAN PALEOBOTANY AND PALYNOLOGY .16. 3-DIMENSIONALLY PRESERVED STROMATOLITE-INCRUSTED CONIFERS FROM THE PERMIAN OF THE WESTERN OROBIC ALPS (NORTHERN ITALY)

Authors
KERP H PENATI F BRAMBILLA G CLEMENTWESTERHOF JA VANBERGEN PF
Citation
H. Kerp et al., ASPECTS OF PERMIAN PALEOBOTANY AND PALYNOLOGY .16. 3-DIMENSIONALLY PRESERVED STROMATOLITE-INCRUSTED CONIFERS FROM THE PERMIAN OF THE WESTERN OROBIC ALPS (NORTHERN ITALY), Review of palaeobotany and palynology, 91(1-4), 1996, pp. 63-84
Citations number
53
Categorie Soggetti
Paleontology,"Plant Sciences
Journal title
Review of palaeobotany and palynology → ACNP
ISSN journal
00346667
Volume
91
Issue
1-4
Year of publication
1996
Pages
63 - 84
Database
ISI
SICI code
0034-6667(1996)91:1-4<63:AOPPAP>2.0.ZU;2-A
Abstract
Freshwater stromatolites from a silty to sandy channel deposit in the Ponteranica Conglomerate (Permian) of the Orobic Alps (province of Son drio, Lombardy, northern Italy), contain very robust, three-dimensiona lly preserved large-leaved conifer shoots. Some of these shoots still show some details of their internal organization. These conifer remain s cannot be assigned to any known genus of late Palaeozoic conifers. T herefore the new form-genus Cassinisia is established. Cassinisia orob ica Kerp ct al., sp. nov. is compared with other late Palaeozoic conif er taxa.