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Artocarpoides kirnii
Artocarpoides kirnii E.W. Berry Profess. Pap. U.S. Geol. Surv., 193(E): 85. Apr 1941
- Name
- Artocarpoides kirnii
- Rank
- Species
- Original spelling
- kirni
- Generic Name
- [Genus] Artocarpoides
- Authors (Pub.)
- Berry E. W.
- Publication
- Additions to the Wilcox flora from Kentucky and Texas [1941/4]
- Journal
- Professional Papers / United States Geological Survey
- Volume
- 193
- Issue
- E
- Page number
- 85
- Year
- 1941
- Fossil Status
- leaves
- Stratigraphy
- Eocene
- Location
- Near Lytle, Atascosa County, Texas; Dezierzanowski farm, 2 miles northeast of Carpenter, Bexar County, Texas, USA
- Paleoregion
- America (North)
Data for Not defined
- Repository
- National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, USA
- Repository Number
- USNM PAL 313961
- Diagnosis
- Leaves relatively large, but showing considerable variability in size. Elongate elliptical in outline, margins entire, sometimes markedly undulatory. Texture
coriaceous. Length ranging from 15 to 20 centimeters. Maximum width ranging from 7.75 to 10 centimeters. Petiole missing. Midvein stout, prominent. Secondaries stout, prominent, irregularly spaced, camptodrome.
Tertiaries thin, percurrent, oblique to the secondaries and nearly at right angles with the midvein. Areolation indistinct.