sterile pinnules and strongly enrolled fertile pinnules, Scolecopteris minuta sp. nov., is
described from the uppermost Taiyuan Formation of the Wuda coalfield in Inner Mongolia.
The fertile fronds are at least tripinnate, with lanceolate to linear penultimate pinnae and
oblong ultimate pinnae. Each pinnule bearing 6–9 ovate to fusiform pedicellate synangia,
arranged abaxially in a single row to either side of the midvein. The deeply incised pinnule …