ARCHAEOPTERIS (PROGYMNOSPERMOPSIDA) FROM THE DEVONIAN OF SOUTHERN AFRICA

Authors
ANDERSON HM HILLER N GESS RW
Citation
Hm. Anderson et al., ARCHAEOPTERIS (PROGYMNOSPERMOPSIDA) FROM THE DEVONIAN OF SOUTHERN AFRICA, Biological Journal of the Linnean Society, 117(4), 1995, pp. 305-320
Citations number
34
Categorie Soggetti
Plant Sciences
Journal title
Biological Journal of the Linnean Society → ACNP
ISSN journal
00244066
Volume
117
Issue
4
Year of publication
1995
Pages
305 - 320
Database
ISI
SICI code
0024-4066(1995)117:4<305:A(FTDO>2.0.ZU;2-R
Abstract
Archaeopteris notosaria sp. nov. based on one fertile and numerous ste rile leafy branches is described from the Grahamstown By-Pass locality , Witpoort Formation (Witteberg Group) Upper Devonian, and represents the first unequivocal record of the genus in southern Africa. This occ urrence is used, in its palaeogeographical context, to support the sug gestion that climatic gradients in Late Devonian times were less steep than they are at present.