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Symplocarpus hoffmaniae
Symplocarpus hoffmaniae Bogner, K.R. Johnson, Z. Kvaček, Upchurch Zitteliana, Ser. A, (47): 140. 31 Dec 2007
- Name
- Symplocarpus hoffmaniae
- Rank
- Species
- Generic Name
- [Genus] Symplocarpus
- 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
- 140
- Year
- 2007
- Fossil Status
- leaves
- Stratigraphy
- Maastrichtian
- Location
- Mud Buttes (=Dean Street), Bowman County, North Dakota, USA
- Paleoregion
- America (North)
Data for Holotypus
- Repository
- Denver Museum of Nature and Science, DMNH, Denver, USA
- Repository Number
- DMNH# 6711
- Diagnosis
- Leaves cordate to subcordate, entire-margined,
petiole non-geniculate, venation pinnate, lowermost
primary lateral veins condensed, sending abmedially large loops
forming indistinct submarginal (marginal) vein, higher lateral
veins weakly differentiated into two orders, higher-order veins
forming narrow elongate irregular areoles in several orders
parallel to primary laterals, cross-veins variously oblique.
