“…Stomatal traits that are considered of utility for fossil plant taxonomy and systematics are numerous, including stomatal presence or absence, size, geometry and orientation, and association with subsidiary cells (Table I), whether they are sunken, raised, or flush with epidermal cells or plugged with wax, are kidney or dumbbell shaped, are overarched by papillate subsidiary/epidermal cells, or are completely encircled by a ring of fused subsidiaries (Cleal and Zodrow, 1989;Hill and Pole, 1992;Carpenter and Jordan, 1997;Denk and Velitzelos, 2002;Krings et al, 2003;Carpenter et al, 2005;Kerp et al, 2006;Cleal, 2008;Pole, 2008;Hernandez-Castillo et al, 2009;Pott and McLoughlin, 2009;Bomfleur and Kerp, 2010;Cleal and Shute, 2012). Guard cell lignification (Lacourse et al, 2016), striations (Barclay et al, 2007), and the presence of two size classes of stomata, including giant stomata (Fišer Pe cnikar et al, 2012), have also been examined for taxonomic purposes.…”