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Desmiophyllum Lesquereux 1878
Description
Form-genus Desmiophyllum Lesquereux, 1878 Layers A to E (Fig. 5 A)
SPECIMENS. — MPZ 2010/1040 to MPZ 2010/1052.
DESCRIPTION
Fragments of elongate strap-like leaves up to 12 cm long and 2 cm wide.Margins straight and reinforced.Base and apex not preserved.Venation consists of numerous gross veins, c. 25 veins per cm, running parallel to leaf margins. Another four thin veins extended between two gross veins making a total of c. 125 veins per cm.
REMARKS
Similar leaves were also found in the Aptian-Albian of western Europe (Coiffard et al. 2007), Canada (Bell 1956) and in Albian-Cenomanian deposits of Alaska (Spicer & Herman 2001) and Russia (Spicer et al. 2002).
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Related works
- Cites
- Figure: 10.5281/zenodo.5380599 (DOI)
- Is part of
- Journal article: 10.5252/g2012n2a7 (DOI)
- Journal article: http://zenodo.org/record/5380589 (URL)
- Journal article: http://publication.plazi.org/id/FF90FFC83A64FFF09561CD486478FF8E (URL)
- Is source of
- https://sibils.text-analytics.ch/search/collections/plazi/03A987B03A6DFFF995E2C8C46703FD81 (URL)
Biodiversity
- Family
- Czekanowskiaceae
- Genus
- Desmiophyllum
- Kingdom
- Plantae
- Order
- Czekanowskiales
- Phylum
- Tracheophyta
- Scientific name authorship
- Lesquereux
- Taxon rank
- genus
- Taxonomic concept label
- Desmiophyllum Lesquereux, 1878 sec. Sender, Villanueva-Amadoz, Diez, Sanchez-Pellicer, Bercovici, Pons & Ferrer, 2012
References
- COIFFARD C., GOMEZ B. & THEVENARD F. 2007. - Early Cretaceous angiosperm invasion of western Europe and major environmental changes. Annals of Botany 100 (3): 545 - 553.
- BELL W. A. 1956. - Lower Cretaceous floras of western Canada. Geological Survey of Canada, Memoir 285, 331 p.
- SPICER R. A. & HERMAN A. B. 2001. - Ne Albian- Cenomanian flora of the Kukpowruk River, western North Slope, Alaska: stratigraphy, palaeofloristics, and plant communities. Cretaceous Research 22: 1 - 40.
- SPICER R. A., AHLBERG A., HERMAN A. B., KELLEY S. P., RAIKEVICH M. I. & REES P. M. 2002. - Palaeoenvironment and ecology of the middle Cretaceous Grebenka flora of northeastern Asia. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 184: 65 - 105.