Sorbus egeriae Ettingsh.

Plant Fossil Names Registry Number: PFN003335

Act LSID: urn:lsid:plantfossilnames.org:act:3335

Author: C. von Ettingshausen

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: 360

Illustrations or figures: pl. 9, fig. 15, 15a

Other combinations

Types

Original diagnosis/description

S. foliolis petiolatis submembranaceis, ovato-oblongis, basi rotundatis, apice angustato acuminatis, margine minute serratis; nervatione camptodroma, nervo primario distincto, excurrente; nervis secundarii sub angulis 50—60° orientibus, tenuibus, subflexuosis, inter se remotis, apice furcatis; nervis tertiariis abbreviatis tenuissimis ramosis dictyodromis.

Emended diagnosis

Simple leaf, petiole thick, angular towards midvein, bent; lamina ovate to slender elliptic, small, base convex, apex long-acuminate, somewhat offset; margin regularly simple serrate, teeth small, probably theoid, tooth apices blunt, devoid of deciduous projections; secondaries considerably more
delicate than midvein.

Stratigraphy

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

Locality

Austria
Moskenberg near Leoben, Leoben Basin, Styria.