NAME Leptonema tenuis
AGE Carboniferous.   AGE span: 359.2...299 mya
K&J CLASSIFICATION (2000) Phycomycetes, Peronosporales.
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FIGURE REFERENCE Smith J. 1896. On the discovery of fossil microscopic plants in the fossil amber of the Ayrshire coal-field; Transactions of the Geological Society of Glasgow, v. 10, p. 318-322.
SPECIES, AUTHORITY L. tenuis J. Smith 1896, p. 321, pl. 7, fig. 19.
LOCATION Annandale Colliery, Annandale, near Kilmarnock, Scotland.
ORIG DESCRIPTION* As for the genus [combined description].
COMMENTS* These minute plants appear like leafless apple-trees embalmed in the amber.
PUBLICATION REFERENCE Smith J. 1896. On the discovery of fossil microscopic plants in the fossil amber of the Ayrshire coal-field; Transactions of the Geological Society of Glasgow, v. 10, p. 318-322.
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ALL NAMES (Including synonyms) Leptonema tenuis
SERIAL NUMBER 888
PUBLIC COMMENTS
 *For source, see Publication Reference.