Sambucus ettingshausenii Kovar-Eder

Plant Fossil Names Registry Number: PFN003340

Act LSID: urn:lsid:plantfossilnames.org:act:3340

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: 229

Illustrations or figures: figs 20.1, 25.20

Types

Original diagnosis/description

(?) subsessile leaflets, lamina slender elliptic, base almost cuneate, apex acute, slightly (?) acuminate; margin simple serrate, teeth distantly spaced, tiny, (?) glandular; midvein slender, secondaries festooned semicraspedodromous, lowermost pair arising at base, running parallel to margin; tertiaries widely spaced, percurrent to irregular reticulate, large-meshed; quaternaries reticulate and also large-meshed; veinlets arising from marginal loops running into tooth sinus.

Etymology

In honour of Constantin von Ettingshausen, who presented the first monograph of the Leoben flora (Ettingshausen, 1869a, 1888)

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