Article: Lower Carboniferous spores from north-west England

Assemblages of spores are described from coals and shales of the Lower Carboniferous (Bewcastle Beds to the Lewis Burn Coal Group) of north-west Cumberland and Northumberland. Forty-three species are recorded. The following new taxa are proposed: (Megaspores) Setispora gen. nov., Aneuletes reticulata, Setispora pseudoreticulata, Triangulatisporites? membranatus, Zonalesporites conacies; (Miospores) Convolutispora planimuricata, Dictyotriletes plumosus, Lophotriletes plicatus, Lycospora rugulosa, Orbisporis convolutus, Tholisporites cumbriensis.