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XV.—Some New Facts about the Structure of the Cuticles in the Russian Paper-Coal and their Bearing on the Systematic Position of Some Fossil Lycopodiales. With a note on The Absence of Eligulate Heterosporous Lycopodiales in the Fossil-Record

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  15 September 2014

John Walton
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University of Glasgow
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The fossil cuticles of the paper-coal from the Moscow Basin in Central Russia were first described and figured by Auerbach and Trautschold in 1860. Since then these cuticles have been the subject of much discussion, especially with regard to the interpretation of their numerous regularly disposed perforations. According to the various views of previous investigators, several generic and specific names have been assigned to these cuticles. Auerbach and Trautschold, regarding the perforations as the result of the fall of the leaf-cushions as well as the leaves, considered the cuticles to belong to the genus Lepidodendron, and named the plant to which they belonged Lepidodendron tenerrimum.

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Copyright © Royal Society of Edinburgh 1932

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