Coniferopsida BURNETT, 1833

Friis, Else Marie, Crane, Peter R. & Pedersen, Kaj Raunsgaard, 2019, The Early Cretaceous Mesofossil Flora Of Torres Vedras (Ne Of Forte Da Forca), Portugal: A Palaeofloristic Analysis Of An Early Angiosperm Community, Fossil Imprint 75 (2), pp. 153-257 : 167

Class Coniferopsida BURNETT, 1833

R e m a r k s. Conifers are represented in the Torres Vedras mesofossil mainly by seeds, twigs, cone scales and clumps of pollen. All twigs and cone scales are very small and are not described here, but appear to include two or three different kinds of shoots with Brachyphyllum type foliage. Apart from a single, poorly preserved twig fragment of Pseudofrenelopsis NATH. vegetative remains or pollen of Cheirolepidiaceae have not been recovered in the mesofossil flora and only rare Classopollis H.D.PFLUG pollen grains were encountered in the palynological preparations from the same samples ( Konradsen 1996). In this section, we illustrate the two pollen types and the most common seed type recovered in the mesofossil flora. In the palynological preparations Konradsen (1996) identified several different kinds of conifer pollen, including several different kinds of bisaccate pollen.