Podzamites - Podzamites

Japanese: ポドザミテス - ぽどざみてす
Podzamites - Podzamites

A type of gymnosperm (conifer) that flourished in the Mesozoic era. Unlike the needles of normal cones, the leaves are broad, ovate or lanceolate, simple, short-stalked, and parallel-veined. The veins branch only at the base and converge toward the tip. The cone-shaped fossil Cycadocarpidium is always found in association with the leaves of Podozamites, so it is speculated that it may be the reproductive organ of Podozamites, but this has not been confirmed.

In Japan, they are abundant in the Triassic system of Tsufuta, Sanyo-Onoda City, Yamaguchi Prefecture, Omine Town, Mine City, and Nariwa Town, Takahashi City, Okayama Prefecture, the Jurassic system of Iwamuro, Shirasawa Town, Numata City, Gunma Prefecture, and Kuruma, Otari Village, Kitaazumi County, Nagano Prefecture, and the Cretaceous system of Niigata Prefecture, Ishikawa Prefecture, and Fukui Prefecture. The name Podozamites is widely used for fossils with similar leaf shapes from the Mesozoic era, so the relationship of many of them is unclear. Many are said to be related to the Podocarpaceae family, but some found in the Southern Hemisphere are related to Wollemia , a new genus of the Araucariaceae family discovered in New South Wales, Australia in 1996.

[Kazuo Asama and Harufumi Nishida]

[References] | Fossils | Conifers | Coniferous plants | Mesozoic Era | Gymnosperms
Podzamites (conifers)
sp. Late Triassic period of the Mesozoic era. Specimen length: approx. 17 cm. Produced in Mine City, Yamaguchi Prefecture. © Photo courtesy of the National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (GSJ F4409)

Podzamites (conifers)


Source: Shogakukan Encyclopedia Nipponica About Encyclopedia Nipponica Information | Legend

Japanese:

中生代に栄えた裸子植物である球果植物(針葉樹)の1種。通常の球果類のもつ針葉とは異なり、葉は卵形または披針(ひしん)形の単葉で幅広く、短柄があり、平行脈をもつ。葉脈は基部でのみ分岐して先端に向かって収束する。球果の形をした化石キカドカルピディウムCycadocarpidiumがつねにポドザミテスの葉に伴って産するため、その繁殖器官ではないかと推測されているが確認されていない。

 日本では山口県山陽小野田市津布田(つぶた)、美祢(みね)市大嶺(おおみね)町、岡山県高梁(たかはし)市成羽(なりわ)町などの三畳系から、また群馬県沼田市白沢(しらさわ)町岩室(いわむろ)、長野県北安曇(あずみ)郡小谷(おたり)村来馬(くるま)のジュラ系、また新潟県、石川県、福井県などの白亜系にかけて多産する。ポドザミテスの名は、中生代の同じような葉形をもつ化石に対して広く使われるため、その類縁ははっきりしないものも多い。多くはマキ科との類縁が指摘されるが、南半球でみつかるもののなかには、1996年にオーストラリア、ニュー・サウス・ウェールズ州で発見された、ナンヨウスギ科の新属ウォレミアWollemiaと関連づけられるものもある。

[浅間一男・西田治文]

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ポドザミテス(球果類)
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ポドザミテス(球果類)


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