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Orontium wolfei
Orontium wolfei Bogner, K.R. Johnson, Z. Kvaček, Upchurch Zitteliana, Ser. A, (47): 136. 31 Dec 2007
- Name
- Orontium wolfei
- Rank
- Species
- Generic Name
- [Genus] Orontium
- Authors (Pub.)
- Bogner J.
Johnson K. R.
Kvaček Z.
Upchurch G. R., Jr.
- Publication
- New fossil leaves of Araceae from the Late Cretaceous and Paleogene of western North America [2007/12]
- Journal
- Zitteliana
- Issue
- 47
- Page number
- 136
- Year
- 2007
- Fossil Status
- leaves
- Stratigraphy
- Eocene
- Location
- One Mile Creek, Princeton, USA
- Paleoregion
- America (North)
Data for Holotypus
- Repository
- Denver Museum of Nature and Science, DMNH, Denver, USA
- Repository Number
- DMNH– 26516
- Diagnosis
- Leaves oblong-elliptic, entire-margined,
with shortly hooded leaf tip, venation parallel-pinnate, with
inconspicuous midrib, primaries arising near the leaf base,
secondary, tertiary and higher-order laterals dense, subparallel
with primaries, primary cross veins very widely spaced,
secondary and lower order crossveins also wide part, oblique,
irregular in their broken course, areolation dense, very narrow
and elongate.
