Umaltolepis

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Umaltolepis
Temporal occurrence
Lower Jurassic to Lower Cretaceous
200 to 100 million years
Locations

Siberia, China, Iran

Systematics
Department : Vascular plants (tracheophyta)
Subdivision : Seed plants (Spermatophytina)
Class : Ginkgo plants (Ginkgoopsida)
Order : Ginkgoales
Family : Umaltolepidiaceae
Genre : Umaltolepis
Scientific name
Umaltolepis
Krassilov

Umaltolepis is an extinct seed plant of the Umaltolepidiaceae familyand a relative of the ginkgo .

features

The seminal organs have one to two ovules per axis. In Umaltolepis sit below the ovule and at the base of the seed-bearing axis bracts . A cupula , however, is missing.

Together with the seed organs, linear, ribbon-like leaves of the genus Pseudotorellia are found.

distribution

The genus Umaltolepis is known from the Lower Jurassic of Iran, from the Upper Jurassic of the Bureja Basin in Siberia and from the Lower Cretaceous of the Bureja Basin as well as north and northeast China. The leaves of the Morphotaxon Pseudotorellia , which also belong to Umaltolepis, are widespread from the Lower Triassic to the Upper Carboniferous in Eurasia.

Systematics

From Umaltolepis several species have been able to be reconstructed. Zhou (2009) names the following:

  • Umaltolepis coleoptera : seed organ from the Lias of Northern Iran, with Pseudotorellia leaves
  • Umaltolepis hebeiensis : seed organs from the Lower Cretaceous of Hebei and Liaoning (China)
  • Umaltolepis rarinervis : seed organs with Pseudotorellia leaves from the Lower Cretaceous Bureja basin
  • Umaltolepis vachrameevii : seed organs with Pseudotorellia leaves from the Upper Jurassic of the Bureja basin.

The type species is Umaltolepis vachrameevii .

supporting documents

  • Zhi-Yan Zhou: An overview of fossil Ginkgoales . Palaeoworld, Volume 18, 2009, pp. 1–22, doi : 10.1016 / j.palwor.2009.01.001
  • Thomas N. Taylor, Edith L. Taylor, Michael Krings: Paleobotany. The Biology and Evolution of Fossil Plants . Second Edition, Academic Press 2009, ISBN 978-0-12-373972-8 . P. 752.