Ternstroemites egeriae (Ettingsh.) Kovar-Eder

Plant Fossil Names Registry Number: PFN003336

Act LSID: urn:lsid:plantfossilnames.org:act:3336

Rank: species

Basionym: Sorbus egeriae Ettingsh.

Genus:

Reference for this name: Kovar-Eder, J. (2024): Plant diversity at the final stage of the Miocene Climate Optimum - Revision of the flora of Leoben, Styria, Austria. – Acta Palaeobotanica 264(2): 123–286.

Page of description: 226

Types for basionym

Holotype NHMW 1878/0006/3849 + 3859 (Ett. 1846 + 1856), Pb 2095, Naturhistorisches Museum Wien, Vienna, Austria
Figures: fig. 19.16
Previously published illustration or figures: pl. 9, fig. 15, 15a 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

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.

Plant fossil remain

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

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