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Umkomasia

Umkomasia
Temporal range: Early Triassic–Late Triassic
Umkomasia macleani.jpg
Umkomasia macleanii ovulate structure, Late Triassic, Molteno Formation, Umkomaas, South Africa.
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Phylum: Pteridospermophyta
Order: Peltaspermales
Family: Corystospermaceae
Genus: Umkomasia
Thomas 1933
Species

Umkomasia is a genus of seed ferns (Pteridospermophyta), and first based on fossils collected by Hamshaw Thomas from the Burnera Waterfall locality near the Umkomaas River of South Africa He recognized on the basis of cuticular similarities that the same plant produced pollen organs Pteruchus and the leaves Dicroidium

Umkomasia has helmet like cupules around ovules born in complex large branching structures.


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