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ON ARECIPITES WODEHOUSE, MONOCOLPOPOLLENITES THOMSON & PFLUG, AND THE SPECIES “MONOCOLPOPOLLENITES TRANQUILLUS”
Author(s) -
Nichols Douglas J.,
Ames H. Tate,
Traverse Alfred
Publication year - 1973
Publication title -
taxon
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.819
H-Index - 81
eISSN - 1996-8175
pISSN - 0040-0262
DOI - 10.2307/1218131
Subject(s) - biology , botany , type (biology) , genus , type species , pollen , zoology , ecology
Summary Misidentification of fossil monocolpate pollen with the species Pollenites tranquillus Potonie is disclosed. This species has been used as the type‐species of the generic names Monocolpopollenites and Palmaepollenites . The genus Monocolpopollenites Thomson & Pflug 1953 is emended; and Palmaepollenites Potonie 1958, Rectosulcites Anderson 1960, and Punctamonocolpites Pierce 1961 are placed in synonymy with it. Arecipites Wodehouse 1933 is emended; Calamuspollenites Elsik in Stover et al. 1966 is placed in synonymy with Arecipites , and A. pertusus (Elsik in Stover et al. 1966) nov. comb., type‐species of Calamuspollenites , is emended. Distinction between Arecipites and Liliacidites Couper 1953 is reaffirmed. Three new species of Monocolpopollenites and one new species of Arecipites are described, and ten new combinations are proposed.