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The ovuliferous organs Trisquama valentinii Gordenko et Broushkin, gen. et sp. nov. from the Bathonian deposits of the Mikhailovskii Rudnik locality (Kursk Region) are described. The ovuliferous organs consist of three scales fused at the base. The long scale, together with the stalk of ovuliferous organ compose a sterile structure, which is vascularized by C-shaped in section collateral vascular bundle, and bears a lobed fertile structure of ovuliferous organ on its anatomically abaxial side. The latter consists of two short scales and an outgrowth between them, and is vascularized by concentric amphicribral vascular bundle, which is divided in its distal part into three separate collateral plates. These plates are associated with the lobes of fertile structure and three small orthotropous seeds situated from xylem side of these vascular bundles. Seeds are ellipsoidal, with not protruding micropyle; the integument is sclerified, megaspore membrane is thick. The ovuliferous organs under description possess unique features, which preclude their assignment to any large group of gymnosperms; authors place them in a separate order, Trisquamales ordo. nov., systematic position of which within Gymnospermae is uncertain.
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Original Russian Text © N.V. Gordenko, A.V. Broushkin, 2018, published in Paleontologicheskii Zhurnal, 2018, No. 1, pp. 86–104.
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Gordenko, N.V., Broushkin, A.V. Ovuliferous Organs of Trisquamales Gordenko et Broushkin ordo. nov. (Gymnospermae) from the Middle Jurassic of the Kursk Region, European Russia. Paleontol. J. 52, 90–107 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1134/S0031030118010082
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