Synonym: Rouseisporites Pocock 1962
Parent taxon: Hepaticae according to W. Volkheimer et al. 2006
See also Barreda et al. 2012, De Benedetti et al. 2024, Papú 2002, Povilauskas et al. 2008, Vallati et al. 2016 and Vallati et al. 2020
Sister taxa: Aporothallus, Hepaticites, Marchantiales, Striatothallus, Thallites, Trambauathallites
Subtaxa: Rouseisporites granospeciosus Rouseisporites pallidus Rouseisporites pseudosulcatus Rouseisporites reticulatus Rouseisporites sehorensis Rouseisporites simplex Zlivisporis asper Zlivisporis blanensis Zlivisporis reticulatus
Ecology: "photoautotroph"
Distribution:
• Eocene of Southern Ocean (2 collections)
• Paleocene of Argentina (6), Colombia (2)
• Cretaceous to Paleogene of Antarctica (1), Argentina (1)
• Cretaceous of Antarctica (8), Argentina (40), Australia (23), Canada (4: Alberta), Colombia (3), Egypt (7), Morocco (1), Peru (1), Portugal (2), Romania (1), South Sudan (5), Spain (1), Sudan (16), the United Kingdom (1), United States (2: Montana, New Jersey)
• Jurassic to Cretaceous of Egypt (1), India (1)
• Jurassic of Egypt (1), India (1)
Total: 131 collections including 163 occurrences
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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