Berberis mahonioides Kovar-Eder

Plant Fossil Names Registry Number: PFN003339

Act LSID: urn:lsid:plantfossilnames.org:act:3339

Author: J. Kovar-Eder

Rank: species

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: 157

Illustrations or figures: figs 7.12, 23.9

Types

Original diagnosis/description

Sessile leaflet, asymmetrical; base cordate; margin serrate, teeth tiny, narrow, distantly spaced; midvein thick, secondaries slender, festooned brochidodromous, arising at wide angle from midvein, forming elongate, angular loops well within lamina; tertiaries irregular reticulate; veinlets arising from marginal loops probably ending in tooth apices.

Etymology

Referring to the former genus Mahonia, which is now included in the genus Berberis.

Stratigraphy

Neogene, Miocene
shales ~2.75 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
Münzenberg near Leoben, Leoben Basin, Styria.