Illustrations:
 Couper 1953, pl. 4, fig. 41 (holotype). |
 Couper 1960, pl. 4, fig. 14 (holotype) |
 Couper 1960, pl. 4, fig. 15 |
 Norris 1968, fig. 59 |
 Mildenhall 1994 pl. 11, fig. 3 |
 Vajda & Raine 2003, fig. 6I |
IGNS taxon number: 375.
Turmal classification (after Burger 1994): Anteturma POLLENITES; Turma SACCITES; Subturma DISACCITES; Infraturma SULCATI.
Synonymy:
1953 Podocarpidites otagoensis Couper p. 37, pl. 4, fig. 41.
1960 Podocarpidites otagoensis Couper; Couper p. 46, pl. 4, figs 14, 15.
1965 Podocarpidites typicus Sah & Jain p. 279, pl. 6, figs 120-122.
1968 (?) Podocarpidites otagoensis Couper; Norris p. 323, fig. 59.
1968 Podocarpidites otagoensis Couper; Volkheimer pp. 353-354, pl. 6, fig. 9.
1968 Podocarpidites aff. otagoensis Couper; Wilson p. 384, fig. 2d.
1968 Phrixipollenites otagoensis (Couper) Haskell p. 228, pl. 2, fig. 6.
non 1969 Podocarpidites otagoensis Couper; Norton & Hall p. 32, pl. 5, fig. 1.
1971 Podocarpidites otagoensis Couper; Krutzsch p. 26.
1972 Podocarpidites otagoensis Couer; Mildenhall p. 193.
1975 Podocarpidites otagoensis Couper; Doubinger & Chotin p. 553, pl. 1, fig. 6; pl. 2, fig. 11.
1976 Podocarpidites otagoensis Couper; Mildenhall p. 70, table 1.
1976 Podocarpidites otagoensis Couper; Mildenhall & Wilson p. 123.
1978 Podocarpidites otagoensis Couper; Wilson p. 124, pl. 7, fig. 2.
1978 Podocarpidites otagoensis Couper; Mildenhall p. 662.
1982 Phrixipollenites cf. otagoensis (Couper) Haskell; Gonzalez-Amicon & Volkheimer p. 173, pl. 4, fig. 5.
1984 Podocarpidites otagoensis Couper; Pocknall & Mildenhall p. 16.
1985 Podocarpidites otagoensis; Lewis & Mildenhall p. 149 (reworked).
non 1986 Parvisaccites otagoensis (Couper) Hua in Song et al. p. 237, pl. 27, figs 14, 21, 22,
1989 Podocarpidites otagoensis Couper; Mildenhall & Pocknall p. 26.
1994 "Podocarpidites otagoensis" Couper; Mildenhall pp. 12, 17, 78, pl. 11, fig. 3.
1997 (?) Podocarpidites otagoensis Couper; Song p. 271, pl. 4, fig. 18; pl. 5, figs 4, 5, 8.
(?)1998 Podocarpidites typicus {Sah & Jain?}Campos et al. p. 12, pl. 2, figs 7a, 7b.
2000 Parvisaccites otagoensis (Couper) Hua; Song et al. p. 464, pl. 120, figs 5-7 (with additional synonymy).
2001 Podocarpidites cf. otagoensis Couper; Martinez et al. pp. 48-49, pl. 3, fig. 8.
2002 Podocarpidites cf. otagoensis Couper; Martinez p. 231, fig. 9I.
2003 Podocarpidites otagoensis Couper; Vajda & Raine p. 262, fig. 6I.
(?) 2005 Lygistepollenites florinii (Cookson & Dettmann) Stover & Evans; Li et al. p. 514, fig. 7B.
non 2007 Parvisaccites otagoensis (Couper) Hua; Zhan et al. p. 24, pl. 2, fig. 28.
2010 Podocarpidites cf. otagoensis Couper; Schrank p. 17, pl. 8, fig. 7.
non 2010 Parvisaccites otagoensis (Couper) Hua; Ding et al. p. 169, pl. 3, fig. 32.
Natural affinity: Gymnospermopsida: Podocarpaceae (Podocarpus?, or Lagarostrobus).
NZ age range: Cretaceous.
Brief description: Saccate pollen. Bisaccate.
Cite this publication as: "J.I. Raine, D.C. Mildenhall, E.M. Kennedy
(2011). New Zealand fossil spores and pollen: an illustrated catalogue. 4th
edition. GNS Science miscellaneous series no. 4.
http://data.gns.cri.nz/sporepollen/index.htm".
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2011
ISBN 978-0-478-19871-3
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Dallwitz (1980) and Dallwitz,
Paine and Zurcher (1993, 1999) should also be cited (see
References).