Intraspecific Variation and Palaeogeographic Dispersal of the Mississippian Miospore Reticulatisporites magnidictyus Playford & Helby, 1968

• Published in: Palynology Vol. 42; no. 2; pp. 210 - 219
• Main Author: Playford, Geoffrey
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Philadelphia American Association of Stratigraphic Palynologists 03.04.2018; Taylor & Francis; Taylor & Francis Ltd
• Subjects: Australasia; Australia; Azonotriletes; Balickera Australia; biogeography; biostratigraphy; Carboniferous; Dispersal; Early Pennsylvanian epoch; Gondwana; intraspecific variation; Microscopy; miospores; Mississippian; morphology; Mount Johnstone Formation; New South Wales; New South Wales Australia; Paleobotany; Paleozoic; palynomorphs; Reticulatisporites magnidictyus; Serpukhovian age; Stratigraphy; taxonomy; Triletes; New South Wales

Renewed study of an Australian Mississippian-age palynoflora — the Grandispora maculosa zonal assemblage from the Mount Johnstone/Italia Road Formation (Hunter Valley, New South Wales) — reveals significant morphological variation in some of its key miospore components — in particular Reticulatispor...