Synonym: Verrucatosporites speciosus Harris 1965 [replaced name]
Full reference: S. Archangelsky. 1972. Esporas de la Formación Río Turbio (Eoceno), Provincia de Santa Cruz. Revista del Museo de la Plata (nueva serie), Sección Paleontología 6(39):65-100
Belongs to Polypodiidites according to S. Archangelsky 1972
See also Barreda et al. 2012, Povilauskas 2016, Rull 1999 and Stiles et al. 2020
Sister taxa: Polypodiidites delicatissimus, Polypodiidites horridus, Polypodiidites magniverrucosus, Polypodiidites ratnamii
Ecology: "photoautotroph"
Distribution:
• Eocene of Argentina (1 collection), Venezuela (50)
• Paleocene of Argentina (11), Venezuela (4)
• Cretaceous to Paleogene of Argentina (1)
• Cretaceous of Argentina (17)
Total: 84 collections each including a single occurrence
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