Euonymus diversifolius Ettingsh.

Plant Fossil Names Registry Number: PFN003332

Act LSID: urn:lsid:plantfossilnames.org:act:3332

Rank: species

Reference for this name: Ettingshausen, C. von (1888): Die fossile Flora von Leoben in der Steiermark. 1., 2. Teil. – Denkschriften der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, math.- naturwiss. Klasse 54: 261–384.

Page of description: 347

Illustrations or figures: pl. 8, figs 18, 18a

Other combinations

Ternstroemites diversifolius (Ettingsh.) Kovar-Eder 2024

Types

Lectotype NHMW 1878/6/4052, b + 4140 (Ett. 2049, b + 2137), Pb 1859, Naturhistorisches Museum Wien, Vienna, Austria
designated in Kovar-Eder, J. (2024): Plant diversity at the final stage of the Miocene Climate Optimum - Revision of the flora of Leoben, Styria, Austria. – Acta Palaeobot. 264(2): 123–286. on page 225
Plant Fossil Names Registry Number: PFN003463
Act LSID: urn:lsid:plantfossilnames.org:act:3463
Figures: figs 19.17, 25.17
Previously published illustration or figures: pl. 8, fig. 18, 18a in Ettingshausen, C. von (1888): Die fossile Flora von Leoben in der Steiermark. 1., 2. Teil. – Denkschriften der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, math.- naturwiss. Klasse 54: 261–384.

Original diagnosis/description

E. foliis membranaceis, breviter petiolatis, ovatis vel lanceolatis, basi obtusis vel acutis, apice acuminatis, margine minutissime serratis; nervatione camptodroma, nervo primario basi prominente apicem versus valde attenuato; nervis secundariis sub angulis 40—55° orientibus, tenuibus, inter se conjunctis; nervis tertiariis e latere externo secundariorum sub angulis acutis egredientibus, tenuissimis simplicibus vel ramosis; reticulo vix distincto, emaculis rotundatis formato.

Emended diagnosis

Slender elliptic leaf, base and apex acute, margin regularly, very densely and minutely serrate, teeth (?) theoid, secondaries probably festooned brochidodromous, delicate, tertiaries percurrent to reticulate, higher-order veins reticulate.

Etymology

Referring to the morphological variability.

Stratigraphy

Neogene, Miocene
Shales ~8.2 m above the coal seam, 14.9 ± 0.7 Ma, dating of a tuff layer near the base of the shales overlying the coal seam.

Locality

Austria
Moskenberg near Leoben, Leoben Basin, Styria.

Plant fossil remain

macro- and meso-fossils-embryophytes except wood - angiosperm

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