USNM 37326 Sagenopteris suspecta Hollick  

Notes

Hollick (1930)

Pl. 2 Fig. 6

 

Locality

From Hollick (1930) (p. 41)

"Coal mine in Coal Bluff, Herendeen Bay, Alaska Peninsula (original No. 31), collected by W. W. Atwood and H. M. Eakin in 1908 (lot 5185)."

 

Locality Map

 

Description

From Hollick (1930) (p. 41)

"Plate 2, Figure 6"

"Pinnule apparently elliptical or elliptical-spatulate, entire; nervation consisting of a network of reticulations that begin in an obscurely defined central nerve or midrib at the base of the pinnule and extend upward and outward to the margin."

 

Remarks

From Hollick (1930) (p. 41)

"The basal portion of our specimen is not preserved, hence the basilar outline can not be defined. The upper part, however, is symmetrical, and this is probably the character of the pinnule as a whole. It is suggestive of specimens from the Shasta series of California, referred by Fontaine (1905) (p. 233, pl. 65, figs. 30 - 35) to Sagenopteris mantelli (Dunker) Schenk (1871) (p. 222 (20), pl. 31 (10), fig. 5) from the Wealden of Germany, and although it appears to be probable that the Alaska and California specimens are specifically identical it is doubtful if either of them is identical with Sagenopteris mantelli, in which any indication of a main central nerve or midrib is entirely lacking."