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CANADIAN JOURNAL OF BOTANY-REVUE CANADIENNE DE BOTANIQUE
Volume 78, Issue 7, Pages 889-902Publisher
NATL RESEARCH COUNCIL CANADA
DOI: 10.1139/b00-062
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Drepanophycus; neotype; lycopsid; cauline sporangia; Lower Devonian; Canada
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The species Drepanophycus spinaeformis Goppert 1852 was described as a fossil plant closely allied with the fucoid algae. Many years later the type, a single figured specimen, was lost along with its associated collection. Subsequent studies described and assigned additional fossils to the species and redefined it as a land plant, a lycopsid. Through all of the descriptions and assignments of specimens to the species, no single specimen was designated as the type to bear the name in the absence of a holotype. The purpose of this paper is to designate a specimen as the neotype, the bearer of the name, and to emend the taxonomic description of the species.
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