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Taxon: Genus †Prototaxites Dawson (1859) (fungus)
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Authorship

SN2000 author citation J.W. Dawson, 1859
Original name, rank & spelling Dawson, J.W. 1859. Quart. J. Geol. Soc. London 15 (1), 5 Jan 1859: 484 ("gen. nov.").

Types

Type ofPrototaxaceae (Family) Hueber (2001), orth. inval. Ref: Hueber, F.M. 2001. Rev. Palaeobot. Palynol. 116: 137. [inferred]
Type, by monotypy, ofPrototaxitaceae (Family) Pia (1927) Ref: J. Pia, 1927: 95. [new] [implicit]
TypePrototaxites loganii J.W. Dawson (1859) Ref: Index Fungorum, present: 3 Jan 2014.

Synonyms

Replacement nameNematophyton (Genus) Dawson (1888), nom. illeg. Ref: Dawson, J.W. 1888. Geol. Hist. Pl.: 21, 22-23. [new]
Synonymous nameNematophycus (Genus) Carruth. (1872), nom. illeg. Ref: J. Pia, 1927: 95.
Synonymous nameNematophyton (Genus) Dawson (1888), nom. illeg. Ref: J. Pia, 1927: 95.
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