Bolsovian Calamostachys incrassata (Němejc) emend. and its spores from the Kladno-Rakovník Basin of the Czech Republic

 

Authors: Libertín M, Bek J

Published in: Bulletin of Geosciences, volume 81, issue 3; pages: 207 - 213; Received 4 April 2006; Accepted in revised form 2 September 2006;

Keywords: Calamites, in situ spores, Calamospora, Calamostachys, Pennsylvanian, Czech Republic,

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Abstract

The present article recommends the emendation of the species Calamostachys incrassata, proposed by Němejc (1953), which was based on one specimen from the Rako Mine near Lubná in the Kladno-Rakovník Basin. The stratigraphical position of the specimen is the Lower Bolsovian. The inner morphology of Calamostachys incrassata and its in situ spores are described for the first time. The morphology of Calamostachys incrassata cones differs from that of all other known species of calamitean strobili. Most in situ microspores possess a very thin pseudosaccus-like layer that envelopes the trilete inner body of the Calamospora-type. Microspores with an outer exine layer are morphologically similar to some dispersed miospore species of the genera Auroraspora, Remysporites, Callialasporites, Perotrilites, Phyllothecotriletes and Diaphanospora.

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