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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.

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