Illustrations:
 Crosbie 1985, pl. 2, fig. 12 |
IGNS taxon number: 430.
Turmal classification (after Burger 1994): Anteturma POLLENITES; Turma POLYPLICATES.
Synonymy:
1964 Decussatisporites lucifer Bharadwaj & Salujha p. 213, pl. 12, figs169, 171 (in part).
1966 Vittatina africana Hart pp. 38-41, figs 2-10.
1969 Weylandites indicus Bharadwaj & Srivastava p. 136, pl. 28, fig.s 91-93.
1970 Paravittatina lucifer (Bharadwaj & Salujha) Balme pp. 411-412, pl. 21, figs 19-22; text-fig. 14.
1975 Weylandites lucifer (Bharadwaj & Salujha) Foster p. 153, pl. 7, fig. 2.
1977 Vittatina lucifer (Bharadwaj & Salujha) Anderson p. 105(9.3), pl. 129, figs 1-93; pl. 130, figs 1-54.
1979 Weylandites lucifer (Bharadwaj & Salujha) Foster; Foster p. 102, pl. 37, figs 7, 8.
1985 Weylandites lucifer (Bharadwaj & Salujha); Crosbie p. 119, pl. 2, fig. 12.
1988 Weylandites lucifer (Bharadwaj & Salujha) Foster; Macrae p. 70, pl. 27, figs 29-31.
1991 Weylandites lucifer (Bharadwaj & Salujha) Foster; Backhouse pp. 294-295, pl. 20, figs 1-3.
1991 Weylandites lucifer (Bharadwaj & Salujha) Foster; Hankel pp. 134ff, pl. 3, fig. 5; pl. 5, fig. 8; pl. 6, fig. 7.
1997 Weylandites lucifer (Bharadwaj & Salujha) Foster; Prasad p. 111, pl. 3, fig. 1.
1998 Weylandites lucifer (Bharadwaj & Salujha) Foster; Liu et al. p. 3, pl. 3, fig. 18.
1998 Weylandites lucifer (Bharadwaj & Salujha) Foster; Mautino et al. pp. 305, 309, pl. 3, fig. h.
1999 Weylandites lucifer (Bharadwaj & Salujha) Foster; Muff et al. p. 28, pl. 2, fig. 14.
2000 Weylandites lucifer (Bharadwaj & Salujha) Foster; Cesari & Gutierrez p. 126, pl. 4, fig. 9.
2000 Decussatisporites lucifer Bharadwaj & Salujha; Song et al. p. 529, pl. 162, fig. 12 (with additional synonymy).
2001 Weylandites lucifer (Bharadwaj & Salujha) Foster; Beri & Pecoits p. 422, fig. 3N.
2001 Weylandites lucifer (Bharadwaj & Salujha) Foster; Weiss p. 526, pl. 4, fig. 8.
2002 Weylandites lucifer (Bharadwaj & Salujha) Foster; Stephenson & Osterloff p. 38, pl. 9, fig. 6.
2008 Weylandites lucifer (Bharadwaj & Salujha) Foster; Playford & Rigby pp. 35-36, pl. 7, figs 13, 14.
2010 Weylandites lucifer (Bharadwaj & Salujha) Foster; Prevec et al. p. 402, fig. 10M.
2010 Weylandites lucifer (Bharadwaj & Salujha) Foster; Gutierrez et al. p. 486, fig. 16H.
2010 Weylandites lucifer (Bharadwaj & Salujha) Foster; Perez Loinaze et al. p. 500, fig. 4H.
2010 Weylandites lucifer (Bharadwaj & Salujha) Foster; Mori & Souza pp. 74-75, fig. 6.7.
Natural affinity: Gnetopsida?.
NZ age range: Permian.
Brief description: Pollen. Polyplicate.
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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Dallwitz (1980) and Dallwitz,
Paine and Zurcher (1993, 1999) should also be cited (see
References).