Ginkgoites sp.

Pott, Christian, 2014, The Upper Triassic flora of Svalbard, Acta Palaeontologica Polonica 59 (3), pp. 709-740 : 733

Ginkgoites sp.

For illustration see Vasilevskaya (1983: pls. 5: 4; 6: 1).

Material.— Hopen: Kollerfjellet (? VSEGEI 17/12163); Carnian (Upper Triassic).

Remarks.— One specimen yielding cuticle has been described by Vasilevskaya (1983) from Kollerfjellet on Hopen. The specimen was not available for study because the repository of the specimens figured in Vasilevskaya (1983) is unknown. Confident identification of the specimen is virtually impossible due to the poor quality of Vasilevskaya’s (1983) figures. However, Ginkgoites is not unexpected in the Carnian of Svalbard as the genus has been reported from the very similar coeval flora of Lunz (Pott and Krings 2010) and the cuticle illustrated by Vasilevskaya (1983) has some typical ginkgoalean epidermal features (e.g., papillate epidermal cells, circular and papillate stomata).