IRMNG name details
Unreviewed
Descriptive info [Originally described as] Microsporangiate organ; Lower Carboniferous; Pettycur, Fifeshire, Scotland. (Index Nominum Genericorum) [details]
Taxonomic remark Junior homonym of Heterotheca Cassini, 1817 in Plantae; replacement name is Bensoniotheca J.E. Mickle & G.W. Rothwell 1979; also preoccupied in zoology by Heterotheca Stechow, 1921 (Cnidaria). Originally described in botany as fossil pollen sacs, possibly of Pteridosperms; now considered an ichnogenus (fossil coprolite), refer Knaust, 2020. [details]
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