Alloberberis axelrodii Doweld

Plant Fossil Names Registry Number: PFN001244

Act LSID: urn:lsid:plantfossilnames.org:act:1244

Rank: species

Reference for this name: Doweld, A. B. (2018): New names of fossil Berberidaceae. – Phytotaxa 351(1): 72–80.

Page of description: 73

Previously published illustration or figures: pl. 2, figs 3–4 in Arnold, C. A. (1936): Some fossil species of Mahonia from the Tertiary of Eastern and Southeastern Oregon. – Contributions from the Museum of Paleontology, University of Michigan 5: 57–66.

Types

Holotype 17314, Museum of Palaeontology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, USA
Previously published illustration or figures: pl. 2, figs 3–4 in Arnold, C. A. (1936): Some fossil species of Mahonia from the Tertiary of Eastern and Southeastern Oregon. – Contributions from the Museum of Paleontology, University of Michigan 5: 57–66.

Original diagnosis/description

Leaves with lanceolate to ovate leaflets having pinnate venation and obliquely cuneate bases; leaflets have 2–4 widely spaced, broad sinuses separated by lobes with sharp spines (after Axelrod 1985).

Etymology

In honour of D. I. Axelrod (1910—1998), eminent American palaeobotanist.

Stratigraphy

Neogene, Miocene

Locality

United States
2 miles west of Fenwick ranch and about 7 miles south of Rockville, Malheur Co., Oregon, USA.

Plant fossil remain

macro- and meso-fossils-embryophytes except wood

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