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Umkomasia feistmantelii

Umkomasia
Temporal range: Early Triassic
Umkomasia feistmantelii megasporophyll.jpg
Umkomasia feistmantelii ovulate structure from the Early Triassic Newport Formation of Turimetta Head, NSW, Australia.
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Phylum: Pteridospermophyta
Order: Peltaspermales
Family: Corystospermaceae
Genus: Umkomasia
Species: U. feistmantelii
Binomial name
Umkomasia feistmantelii
Holmes 1987

Umkomasia feistmantelii is an unusually large species of Umkomasia from the Early Triassic of New South Wales, Australia.

Umkomasia feistmantelii is found both with cupules enclosing the large seeds and with cupules open and expandede into a star-shaped form.

Umkomasia feistmantelii from the Early Triassic of Australia may have been produced by the same plant as Pteruchus barrealensis (pollen organs) and Dicroidium zuberi (leaves)


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