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Menispermites ettingshausenii
Menispermites ettingshausenii A.B. Herman, J. Kvaček Late Cret. Grünbach Fl. Austria ed. 2010 82. 22 Dec 2009
- Name
- Menispermites ettingshausenii
- Rank
- Species
- Generic Name
- [Genus] Menispermites
- Authors (Pub.)
- Herman A. B.
Kvaček J.
- Publication
- Late Cretaceous Grünbach flora of Austria [2009/12]
- Authors (Book)
- Herman A. B.
Kvaček J.
- Book
- Late Cretaceous Grünbach flora of Austria
- Edition
- 2010
- Page number
- 82
- Year
- 2009
- Fossil Status
- leaves
- Stratigraphy
- Campanian
- Strat. comment
- Grünbach Formation
- Location
- Grünbach am Schneeberg, Austria
- Paleoregion
- Eurasia (Europe)
Data for Holotypus
- Repository
- Naturhistorisches Museum Wien, Geologisch-Paläontologische Abteilung, Vienna, Austria
- Repository Number
- NHMW 1999B0057/0089a
- Diagnosis
- Leaf small, simple, trilobate, broadly triangular,
symmetric, entire-margined. Leaf base cordate.
Two lateral lobes in the lower part of the leaf well-developed,
broad, round-triangular. Sinuses between
lateral lobes and apical part of the leaf broad, shallow,
round. Venation palmate brochidodromous.
Midvein straight, two pairs of basal veins emerging
from the leaf base. The basal vein of the upper pair
forks with one branch going to the apical part of the
leaf forming a loop, the other branch going to the
lateral lobe also forming a loop. The basal vein of the
second pair goes to the lateral lobe apex. One pair
of infrabasal veins thin, short. One or two secondary
veins brochidodromous, emerging from the midvein and the lower basal vein, curving upwards and forming loops. Tertiary veins thin, orthogonal-reticulate, forming loops along leaf margin. Quaternary venation
orthogonal-reticulate.
