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Tricolpites
Taxonomy
Tricolpites was named by Couper (1953). It is not extant. It is considered to be a form taxon.
It was assigned to Magnoliopsida by Couper (1953) and Potonié (1960); to Gunneraceae by Jarzen (1982) and Vera et al. (2022); and to Gunnerales by Perez Loinaze et al. (2023).
It was assigned to Magnoliopsida by Couper (1953) and Potonié (1960); to Gunneraceae by Jarzen (1982) and Vera et al. (2022); and to Gunnerales by Perez Loinaze et al. (2023).
Species
T. albiensis, T. asper, T. asperamarginis, T. bibaculatus, T. brevis, T. communis, T. cooksonae, T. cooksoni, T. crassimurus, T. crassireticulatus, T. foxii, T. gageonnetii, T. giganteus, T. gigantoreticulatus, T. gilli, T. gillii, T. globus, T. levis, T. longicolpus, T. micromunus, T. microreticulatus, T. microreticuloides, T. microstriatus, T. minutus, T. mutabilis, T. pachyexinus, T. pannosus, T. parvus, T. protoclarensis, T. psilatus, T. redactus, T. reticulata, T. reticulatus, T. retielegans, T. ringens, T. sabulosus, T. sagax, T. speciosum, T. synstriatus, T. trioblatus, T. variabilis, T. verrucatus, T. virgeus, T. vulgaris, T. waiparaensis
Species lacking formal opinion data
Synonymy list
Year | Name and author |
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1953 | Tricolpites Couper |
1960 | Tricolpites Potonié |
1982 | Tricolpites Jarzen p. 16 |
2022 | Tricolpites Vera et al. |
2023 | Tricolpites Perez Loinaze 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. †Tricolpites Couper 1953
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†Tricolpites albiensis Kemp 1968
†Tricolpites asper Frederiksen 1978
†Tricolpites asperamarginis McIntyre 1968
†Tricolpites bibaculatus Archangelsky and Zamaloa 1986
†Tricolpites brevis Sah and Kar 1970
†Tricolpites communis Archangelsky 1973
†Tricolpites cooksonae Dettmann 1973
†Tricolpites cooksoni Belsky et al. 1965
†Tricolpites crassimurus Singh 1971
†Tricolpites crassireticulatus Dutta and Sah 1970
†Tricolpites foxii Biswas 1962
†Tricolpites gageonnetii Schrank 1987
†Tricolpites giganteus Jardiné and Magloire 1965
†Tricolpites gigantoreticulatus Jardiné and Magloire 1965
†Tricolpites gilli Cookson 1957
†Tricolpites gillii Cookson 1957
†Tricolpites globus Dutta and Sah 1970
†Tricolpites levis Sah and Dutta 1966
†Tricolpites longicolpus Sah and Dutta 1966
†Tricolpites micromunus Burger 1970
†Tricolpites microreticulatus Belsky et al. 1965
†Tricolpites microreticuloides Ramanujam 1966
†Tricolpites microstriatus Jardiné and Magloire 1965
†Tricolpites minutus Singh 1971
†Tricolpites mutabilis Leffingwell 1971
†Tricolpites pachyexinus Couper 1953
†Tricolpites pannosus Dettmann and Playford 1968
†Tricolpites parvus Stanley 1965
†Tricolpites protoclarensis Jaramillo and Dilcher 2001
†Tricolpites psilatus Martin 1973
†Tricolpites redactus Frederiksen 1978
†Tricolpites reticulata Cookson 1947
†Tricolpites reticulatus Couper 1953
†Tricolpites retielegans Freile 1972
†Tricolpites ringens Burger 1993
†Tricolpites sabulosus Dettmann and Playford 1968
†Tricolpites sagax Norris 1967
†Tricolpites speciosum Ramanujam 1966
†Tricolpites synstriatus Jardine and Magloire 1965
†Tricolpites trioblatus Mildenhall and Pocknall 1989
†Tricolpites variabilis Burger 1970
†Tricolpites verrucatus Stuchlik 1981
†Tricolpites virgeus Zippi and Bajc 1989
†Tricolpites vulgaris Pierce 1961
†Tricolpites waiparaensis Couper 1960
Diagnosis
Reference | Diagnosis | |
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R. A. Couper 1953 | Free, isopolar, tricolpate. Exine variable in thickness and sculpture. Size variable. | |
R. Potonié 1960 | Shape round to oval, isopolar, tricolpate, mesocolpium bulging, furrow wide, with exine on either side thicker, equator ± trefoil-shaped, exine finely reticulate. |
Measurements
part | N | mean | minimum | maximum | median | s.d. | |
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Pollen grain diameter | 7 | 0.026 | 0.019 | 0.032 | 0.026 | 0.005 |
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Reference: Kiessling 2009 |
Age range: base of the Barremian to the top of the Middle Pleistocene or 129.40000 to 0.12900 Ma
Collections (448 total)
Oldest occurrences | |||
Time interval | Ma | Country or state | Original ID and collection number |
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Middle Jurassic - Late/Upper Cenomanian | Egypt (Western Desert) | T. sp. (139303) | |
Early/Lower Cretaceous | Antarctica | T. baculado (150877 150878) | |
Early/Lower Cretaceous - Late/Upper Cretaceous | Antarctica (Antarctic peninsula) | T. reticulatus (172746) | |
Valanginian - Barremian | Chile (Doceava Región) | T. sp. (150020 150026) | |
Barremian - Aptian | Israel (Negev) | T. sp. A, T. sp. B, T. sp. C (140291) | |
Aptian | Egypt (Western Desert) | T. spp. (142198 142199 142200) | |
Aptian | Canada (Alberta) | T. sp. (194481) | |
Aptian | Egypt (Matruh) | T. sp. (137370 137371) | |
Aptian - Early/Lower Albian | Argentina (Santa Cruz) | T. sp. (149849 149850) | |
Aptian - Early/Lower Albian | Egypt (Western Desert) | T. sp. (139326 139328) | |
Youngest occurrences |
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Time interval | Ma | Country or state | PBDB collection number |
Miocene | India (Kerala) | T. sp. (224891) | |
Miocene | USA (Massachusetts) | T. asper (231798) T. asper, T. redactus (231824) | |
Miocene | India (Assam) | T. sp. (225487) | |
Miocene | India (Tamil Nadu) | T. thomasii, T. minutus, T. foxii, T. microreticuloides, T. speciosum (224618) | |
Middle Miocene | Argentina (La Rioja) | T. trioblatus (153418) | |
Middle Miocene | Australia (New south wales) | T. spp. (168989 168994 168996 168997 168998 169002 169004) T. spp., T. simatus (168999 169000 169001) | |
Middle Miocene - Late/Upper Miocene | Argentina (Chubut) | T. trioblatus (144210) | |
Middle Miocene - Early/Lower Pliocene | South Atlantic (Falkland Islands) | T. reticulatus (169355 169356) | |
Late/Upper Miocene | Argentina (Catamarca) | T. sp., T. reticulatus (137142) | |
Early/Lower Pleistocene - Middle Pleistocene | Australia (Tasmania) | T. simatus, T. reticulata (166707) |