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Welwitschiapites
Taxonomy
Welwitschiapites was named by Bolkhovitina. It is not extant.
It was assigned to Welwitschiaceae by Lakhanpal et al. (1976).
It was assigned to Welwitschiaceae by Lakhanpal et al. (1976).
Species
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
|---|---|
| 1976 | Welwitschiapites Lakhanpal et al. |
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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.
G. †Welwitschiapites Bolkhovitina
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†Welwitschiapites canaliculus Lele and Kulkarni 1969
†Welwitschiapites extansus Bharadwaj and Salujha 1964
†Welwitschiapites magnus Maithy 1965
†Welwitschiapites minutus Maithy 1965
†Welwitschiapites tenuis Bharadwaj and Salujha 1964
Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
No measurements are available
No ecological data are available
Age range: base of the Sakmarian to the top of the Late/Upper Cretaceous or 293.52000 to 66.00000 Ma
Collections (11 total)
| Time interval | Ma | Country or state | Original ID and collection number |
|---|---|---|---|
| Permian | India (Jharkhand) | W. tenuis (224608) | |
| Sakmarian | India | W. canaiculus (30147) W. magnus (30151) | |
| Sakmarian | India (Jharkhand) | W. magnus, W. minutus (225321) | |
| Artinskian - Kungurian | India (Jharkhand) | W. tenuis (224664 224701 224722) | |
| Wordian - Lopingian | India | W. extansus, W. tenuis (30166) | |
| Lopingian | India (Madhya Pradesh) | W. sp. (224895) | |
| Lopingian | India (West Bengal) | W. extansus, W. tenuis (224894) | |
| Late/Upper Cretaceous | India | W. sp. (224605) |