Droseridites
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Droseridites Temporal range: Cretaceous?–Miocene |
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| Photomicrographs of D. echinosporus pollen taken at 1000x magnification. | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| (unranked): | Angiosperms |
| (unranked): | Eudicots |
| (unranked): | Core eudicots |
| Order: | Caryophyllales |
| Family: | ?Droseraceae |
| Genus: |
Droseridites Cookson (1947) ex R.Potonié (1960) |
| Species | |
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D. baculatus Ibrahim (1996) |
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D. baculatus Ibrahim (1996)
D. echinosporus R.Potonié (1954)
D. major Krutzsch (1970)
D. parvus Dutta & Sah (1970)
D. senonicus Jardiné & Magloire (1965)
D. spinosus (type) (Cookson) R.Potonié (1960)
Droseridites is a genus of extinct plants of possible droseracean or nepenthacean affinity. It is a form taxon known only from fossil pollen. Species assigned to this genus originate from numerous regions of the world, including Europe (from France to the Caucasus),India,Egypt, the Arabian Peninsula, and the Kerguelen Islands.
This genus is characterised by and pollen grains that are united in loose tetrahedral tetrads (groups of four). The grains are , , and . The are slender and long, whereas the are very fine, densely packed, and situated parallel to the polar axis.
Droseridites spinosus, the type species, has been recorded from the Tertiary of the Kerguelen Islands and the Miocene of India, including the Warkalli Formation (Bharathi and Kundra Clay Mines, Kerala) and the Sindhudurg Formation (Mavli Mine at Redi, Sindhudurg District, Maharashtra). It is of possible nepenthacean affinity. Specimens identified in the literature as D. cf. spinosus have also been reported from Hungarian Miocene deposits.
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