单词 | muscites |
释义 | Muscitesn. Palaeontology. A genus of fossil mosses originally comprising all fossil mosses found in amber, coal, or other deposits, and now used as a form genus for those which cannot be further classified. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > plants and herbs > fossil plants > [noun] cycadite18.. Bothrodendron1835 lepidodendron1836 calamite1837 sphenophyllum1837 stigmaria1845 polyporite1846 fucoid1848 Muscites1859 lepidodendrid1863 Bennettites1871 lepidodendroid1872 progymnosperm1885 pteridosperm1904 Bennettitales1907 seed fern1907 1859 D. Page Handbk. Geol. Terms 259 Muscites, a general term for fossil plants of the Moss family. 1898 Science 9 Sept. 339/1 Mr. Seward..confines himself to the ancestral types that have been called Muscites. 1946 Amer. Midland Naturalist 36 311 This is exactly the sort of specimen which should be assigned to the genus Muscites, since it cannot be defined precisely. 1986 Amer. Jrnl. Bot. 73 1683/1 Other species of Muscites have been described from the Upper Carboniferous of France and include both impressions and compressions. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1859 |
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