Back
Gordonia pannonica
Gordonia pannonica Kovar-Eder in Kovar-Eder, Hably Acta Palaeobot., 46(2): 177. 15 Dec 2006
- Name
- Gordonia pannonica
- Rank
- Species
- Generic Name
- [Genus] Gordonia
- Authors (Name)
- Kovar-Eder J. B.
- Authors (Pub.)
- Kovar-Eder J. B.
Hably L.
- Publication
- The flora of Mataschen – a unique plant assemblage from the late Miocene of eastern Styria (Austria) [2006/12]
- Journal
- Acta Palaeobotanica
- Volume
- 46
- Issue
- 2
- Page number
- 177
- Year
- 2006
- Fossil Status
- leaves
- Stratigraphy
- Tortonian
- Strat. comment
- Pannonian
- Location
- Mataschen clay pit, 5 km SW of Fehring, district Feldbach, Styria, Austria
- Paleoregion
- Eurasia (Europe)
Data for Holotypus
- Repository
- Naturhistorisches Museum Wien, Geologisch-Paläontologische Abteilung, Vienna, Austria
- Repository Number
- 2000B0015/149
- Diagnosis
- Leaf fragments with acute/ acuminate bases, 3–5 slender veins arising at the base, running steeply across the lamina, sometimes forking, no further details preserved. Adaxial cuticle: rarely preserved, thick; size of non-modifi ed epidermal cells 27–43 μm (32–33 μm), anticlines curved, slightly undulate and knobbed. Abaxial cuticle (Pl. 9, fi gs 5, 6): well preserved, thick, glabrous; stomatal complexes cyclocytic, subsidiaries tangentially elongated, covered by concentric wrinkles; stomata 22–39 μm (26–32 μm) long, 19–27 μm (23–25 μm) wide, epidermal walls and outer stomatal ledges of the guard cells distinctly thickened, smooth, stomatal aperture oval, 12–22 μm (14–18 μm) long, polar I-pieces more or less prominent; anticlines of the non-modifi ed epidermal cells not visible; coarse, bundled, more or less parallel-running wrinkles strongly developed; wrinkles along veins oriented parallel to the elongated cell outlines.
Nomenclatural synonyms (basionyms)
Species
