Aglaoreidia pristina Fowler, 1971

Ramírez-Arriaga, Elia, Prámparo, Mercedes B. & Martínez-Hernández, Enrique, 2014, Angiosperm pollen grains from the Cuayuca Formation (Late Eocene to Early Oligocene), Puebla, Mexico, Palaeontologia Electronica 102 (8), pp. 1-38 : 6

Aglaoreidia pristina Fowler, 1971

Figure 3.7

Material. Sample Pb-9334(4), Palynology Laboratory, IGLUNAM.

Description. Monad pollen, heteropolar, radiosymmetric, amb circular, spheroidal. Monoporate, pore with annulus 1.2 P m thick. Exine semitectate, columellate, 0.8 P m thick, reticulate, heterobrochate, brochi <0.8 P m near the aperture.

Dimensions. Equatorial diameter 24.8 P m; polar diameter 24 P m based on one measured specimen.

Other occurrences. Mexico – late Eocene to early Oligocene Pie de Vaca Formation, Puebla ( Martínez-Hernández and Ramírez-Arriaga, 1999). U.S.A. – late Eocene to early Oligocene, Gulf Coast ( Frederiksen, 1980a, 1988). Europe – late Eocene to middle Oligocene, northeastern Europe ( Krutsch, 1963); late Eocene, England ( Fowler, 1971; Collison et al., 1981).