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Dicotylophyllum tulipiferum
Dicotylophyllum tulipiferum H.-S. Wang, Dilcher Palaeontographica, Abt. B, Paläophytol., 281(4–6): 166. Sep 2009
- Name
- Dicotylophyllum tulipiferum
- Rank
- Species
- Generic Name
- [Genus] Dicotylophyllum
- Authors (Pub.)
- Wang H.-S.
Dilcher D. L.
- Publication
- Late Cretaceous angiosperm leaves from the Courtland Clay Pit, Minnesota [2009/9]
- Journal
- Palaeontographica
- Volume
- 281
- Issue
- 4–6
- Page number
- 166
- Year
- 2009
- Fossil Status
- leaves
- Stratigraphy
- Cenomanian
- Location
- Courtland Clay Pit, Nicollet County, Minnesota, USA [PARATYPUS]
- Paleoregion
- America (North)
Data for Holotypus
- Repository
- Type and Illustrated Paleontology Collection, Natural History Museum of Denmark, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
- Repository Number
- MGUH 5714 (23: fig. 1); MGUH 5715 (23: fig. 2)
- Num
- 23: 1-2
- Descr.
- Specimens of Liriodendron tulipifera Linnaeus that Heer (1882) illustrated on Plate 23, Figs. 1 and 2 are modern leaves (two separate specimens), as is clearly expressed on Heer (1882, p. 89). Heer illustrated these modern examples for comparison with the fossil Liriodendron species in his monograph.
- Pub.
- Flora fossilis arctica [1882/11]
Data for Paratypus
- Repository
- Florida Museum of Natural History, Gainesville, USA
- Repository Number
- UF18267-16588, 16588’
