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Platycarya richardsoni

Angiospermae - Fagales - Juglandaceae

Taxonomy
Petrophiloides richardsonii was named by Bowerbank (1840). It is not extant. Its type locality is The London Clay Flora - Sheppey, which is in a Ypresian marginal marine claystone in the London Clay Formation of the United Kingdom.

It was synonymized subjectively with Sequoia bowerbankii by Ettinghausen (1880); it was misspelled as Petrophiloides richardsoni by Chandler (1961); it was recombined as Platycarya richardsoni by Chandler (1964).

Sister species lacking formal opinion data

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1840Petrophiloides richardsonii Bowerbank
1961Petrophiloides richardsoni Chandler p. 135
1964Platycarya richardsoni Chandler p. 110

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomPlantae
phylumSpermatophyta
classAngiospermae
Rosids
Eurosids
RankNameAuthor
Fabid
orderFagales
familyJuglandaceae
genusPlatycaryaSiebold and Zuccarini 1843
speciesrichardsoni()

If no rank is listed, the taxon is considered an unranked clade in modern classifications. Ranks may be repeated or presented in the wrong order because authors working on different parts of the classification may disagree about how to rank taxa.

Platycarya richardsoni Bowerbank 1840
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Diagnosis
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Measurements
No measurements are available
Diet: "photoautotroph"p
Created: 2011-07-22 00:04:15
Modified: 2011-07-21 09:04:15
Source: p = phylum
Reference: Kiessling 2009

Age range: Ypresian or 56.00000 to 47.80000 Ma

Collections (4 total)


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Ypresian56.0 - 47.8United Kingdom (England) Petrophiloides richardsoni (21249 22801 22806) Petrophiloides richardsonii (type locality: 22811)