Late Triassic plants from the Chinle Formation in north-eastern Arizona

Volume / Part: 15 / 4
Publication Date: December 1972
Page(s): 598 - 618
Authored By: Sidney R. Ash

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Three plants based on megafossils are described from the Late Triassic Chinle Formation at a new locality in north-eastern Arizona. They are the leafy shoot and cone of Selaginella anasazia sp. nov., the leafy and fertile branches of Dechellyia gormani gen. et sp. nov., a conifer of uncertain affinities, and Masculostrobus clathratus sp. nov., a male coniferous cone. The cone is noteworthy because it contains pollen closely resembling the Late Triassic grains called Equisetosporites chinleana by Daugherty (1941) and later referred to the genus Ephedra by Scott (1960).

Palaeontology - Volume 15 Part 4 Pages 598-618

Palaeontology - Volume 15 Part 4 Pages 598-618

Citations

ASH, S. R. 1972. Late Triassic plants from the Chinle Formation in north-eastern Arizona. Palaeontology, 15, 4, 598–618.