Araliaephyllum vittenburgii Golovn. et Volynets in Golovneva, Bugdaeva, Volynets, Sun & Zolina
Plant Fossil Names Registry Number: PFN002696
Act LSID: urn:lsid:plantfossilnames.org:act:2696
Authors: L. B. Golovneva & E. B. Volynets
Rank: species
Reference: Golovneva, L., Bugdaeva, E., Volynets, E., Sun, Y. & Zolina, A. (2021): Angiosperm diversification in the Early Cretaceous of Primorye, Far East of Russia. – Fossil Imprint 77(2): 231–255.
Page of description: 246
Illustrations or figures: fext-fig. 10g1–2
Types
Holotype IBSS 41/1a, Federal Scientific Center of the East Asia Terrestrial Biodiversity (IBSS), FEB RAS, Vladivostok, Russia
Figures: text-fig. 10g1
Note: repository: previously termed as Institute of Botany and Soil Science
Original diagnosis/description
Leaves very small, 5–7-lobed, rounded or widely ovate in outline, with cordate base; margin entire; lobes linear-elliptic, with wide rounded apices; central lobe equal in length to upper lateral lobes or slightly shorter; lateral lobes gradually decrease in size towards leaf base; lobe length equal to 1/2 of blade length; sinuses between lobes narrow with rounded apices; basal veins end before lobe apex; lowest basiscopic branches of lateral basal veins strong and innervate 1–2 additional pairs of lateral lobes.
Etymology
After geologist P. V. Vittenburg.
Stratigraphy
Cretaceous, Lower Cretaceous, Albian
Galenki Formation, early-middle Albian
Locality
Russian Federation
Dachny Creek, Podgorodenka coalfield, Razdolnaya coal basin, Southern Primorye
Plant fossil remain
macro- and meso-fossils-embryophytes except wood
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