Table 3.

Pollen and spore taxa present in the palynological assemblage with citations to an original or emended description (or in a few cases to a description not necessarily conforming to the original description, indicated here by ‘fide’) and inferred affinity

Taxon	Affinity
Cadiospora magna Kosanke 1950: p. 50, pl. 16, fig. 1	Sigillaria
Calamospora breviradiata Kosanke, 1950: p. 41, pl. 9, fig. 4	Calamitaceae, Sphenophyllales
Columinisporites ovalis Peppers 1964: p. 16, pl. 1, figs. 11, 12	Sphenophyllales
Convolutispora florida Hoffmeister, Staplin & Malloy 1955: p. 384, pl. 38, fig. 6	Polypodiidae
Cyclogranisporites aureus (Loose) Potonie & Kremp 1955: p. 61, pl. 13, figs. 184–186	Marattiales
Cyclogranisporites minutus Bhardwaj 1957: p. 83, pl. 22, figs. 22–23, emend. Ravn 1986: p. 31, pl. 3, figs. 3, 4	Marattiales
Cyclogranisporites sp. cf. C. orbicularis (Kosanke) Potonie & Kremp 1955 fide Ravn 1986:
Punctatisporites obliquus Kosanke 1950: p. 16, pl. 2, fig. 5	Marattiales
Dictyotriletes sp.	?Marattiales
Knoxisporites sp. cf. K. ruhlandii Doubinger & Rauscher 1966 fide Playford 1971: p. 35, pl. 12, figs. 1–4	Probably Polypodiidae
Laevigatosporites medius Kosanke 1950: p. 29, pl. 16, fig. 12	Sphenophyllales
Laevigatosporites minor Loose 1934: p. 158, pl. 7, fig. 12	Sphenophyllales
Leioaletes circularis Ravn & Fitzgerald 1982: p. 150, pl. 12, figs. 1–5	?Marattiales, ?Sphenopsida
Punctatisporites aerarius Butterworth & Williams: p. 360, pl. 1, figs. 10, 11	Marattiales
Punctatisporites minutus Kosanke 1950 fide Smith and Butterworth 1967, p. 126, pl. 1, figs. 15, 16	Marattiales
Punctatosporites minutus Ibrahim 1933: p. 40, pl. 5, fig. 33, fide Smith & Butterworth 1967, pl. 24, figs. 8, 9	Marattiales
Triquitrites cf. T. sculptilis Balme 1952: p. 181, text-fig. 1g (fide Smith & Butterworth 1967, pl. 12, figs. 10–15)	Polypodiidae: Gleicheniaceae
Pollen/prepollen
Alisporites cf. A. plicatus Jizba 1962: p. 884, pl. 124, figs. 51–53	?Seed fern
Colatisporites decorus (Bharadwaj & Venkatachala) Williams, in Neves et al., 1973: p. 41, pl. 2, figs. 11–13 [=Anguisporites intonsus Wilson 1962: p. 12, pl. 1, fig. 3]	?Lyginopteridales
Florinites mediapudens (Loose 1936) Potonie & Kremp, 1956: p. 169, pl. 21, figs. 468–471	Cordaitales
Florinites sp.	Cordaitales
Hamiapollenites sp. of Jizba 1962, pl. 123, fig. 38 (as Striatosaccites sp.)	?Peltaspermales or ?Gnetales
Hamiapollenites perisporites (Jizba) Jansonius 1962 (as Striatosaccites perisporites Jizba 1962: p. 882, pl. 123, fig. 39–43	?Peltaspermales or ?Gnetales
Illinites unicus Kosanke 1950: 51–52, pi. 1, figs. 3, 4 (fide Jizba 1962: p. 879, pl. 121, figs. 1–14, as Complexisporites polymorphus)	?Voltziales
Klausipollenites sp. cf. K. staplinii Jansonius 1962: p. 56, pl. 12, figs. 21–27	?Seed fern
cf. Nuskoisporites sp.	Voltziales
Paravesicaspora splendens (Leschik 1955) Klaus 1963: pl. 18, figs. 90, 91	?Peitaspermales
Pityosporites communis Tschudy & Kosanke 1966: p. 66, pl. 2, figs. 32, 33	?Seed fern
Platysaccus sp. cf. P. saarensis (Bhardwaj 1957) Jizba 1962: p. 885, pl. 124, figs. 59–61	?Seed fern
Potonieisporites sp. cf. P. novicus Bhardwaj 1954 emend. Poort & Veid 1997: fig. 1a-f	Voltziales
Potonieisporites sp. cf. P. simplex Wilson 1962: pp. 14–15, pl. 3, figs. 1–3	Voltziales
Schopfipollenites ellipsoides (Ibrahim 1932) Potonie & Kremp 1954: pp. 180, pl. 19, figs. 89–92, pl. 20, fig. 107	Medullosaceae
Striatoabietites richteri (Kiaus 1955) Hart 1964 (fide Jizba 1962: p. 880, pl. 122, figs. 16–21, 25–30, as Striatites richteri (Kiaus) Jizba 1962)	?Peitaspermaies or ?Voltziales
Tinnulisporites sp. cf. T. microsaccus Dempsey 1967: p. 115, pl. 1 figs. F-N	Unknown seed plant
Vesicaspora wilsonii Schemei 1951: pp. 749–750, figs. 1, 3	Callistophytaies or Peltaspermaies (?Autunia)
Vesicaspora sp. ‘giobose’	Callistophytales or ?Peltaspermales or
Vittatina lata Wilson 1962, p. 25, pl. 3, fig. 11	?Gnetales
Wilsonites sp.	?Peltaspermales

Proposed affinities follow Looy and Hotton (2014) and literature therein