| Saxonipollis Temporal range: | |
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Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes |
| Clade: | Angiosperms |
| Clade: | Eudicots |
| Order: | Caryophyllales |
| Family: | Droseraceae |
| Genus: | †Saxonipollis Krutzsch (1970) |
| Species: | †S. saxonicus |
| Binomial name | |
| †Saxonipollis saxonicus Krutzsch (1970)[1] | |
Saxonipollis saxonicus is an extinct plant species. It was possibly carnivorous. It is known only from fossilised pollen found in Eocene deposits of East Germany.[1]
Saxonipollis saxonicus was possibly a precursor to Aldrovanda, or a close relative to its precursor.[2]
References
- 1 2 Krutzsch, Wilfried 1970. Zur Kenntnis fossiler disperser Tetradenpollen. Paläontologische Abhandlungen Abteilung B, Paläobotanik 3(3): 399–433
- ↑ Degreef, J.D. 1997. "Fossil Aldrovanda" (PDF). (263 KiB) Carnivorous Plant Newsletter 26(3): 93–97.
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