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Kirketapel salamanquensis
Kirketapel salamanquensis Andr.-Colombo in Andr.-Colombo, Escapa, R.J. Carp., R.S. Hill, A. Iglesias, Abarzua, Wilf Alcheringa, 2018, 43(1)(10.1080/03115518.2018.1517222): 5 [131]. 15 Nov 2018
- Name
- Kirketapel salamanquensis
- Rank
- Species
- Generic Name
- [Genus] Kirketapel
- Authors (Name)
- Andruchow-Colombo A.
- Authors (Pub.)
- Andruchow-Colombo A.
Escapa I. H.
Carpenter R. J.
Hill R. S.
Iglesias A.
Abarzua A. M.
Wilf P.
- Publication
- Oldest record of the scale-leaved clade of Podocarpaceae, early Paleocene of Patagonia, Argentina [2018/11]
- Journal
- Alcheringa
- Annee/Jahrgang
- 2018
- Volume
- 43(1)
- Issue
- 10.1080/03115518.2018.1517222
- Page number
- 5 [131]
- Year
- 2018
- Fossil Status
- foliage
- Stratigraphy
- Danian
- Location
- Bosque Petrificado José Ormaechea (OR) locality, OR-2 quarry, Salamanca
Formation, Golfo San Jorge Basin, Argentina
- Paleoregion
- America (South)
Data for Holotypus
- Repository
- Museo Paleontologico Egidio Feruglio, Trelew, Argentina
- Repository Number
- MPEF-Pb 9207
- Diagnosis
- Small, scale-like leaves, spirally arranged on shoots. Leaves ensiform, bifacially flattened, softly keeled abaxially, with acute apex, marginal
frill only at the leaf apex, up to 3.8mm long and up to 1.6mm wide, amphistomatic. Florin rings reduced or absent, stomatal apparatus less cutinized than epidermal cell walls, 38.3–70.1 lm long and 34.4–63.8 lm wide. Stomata in very discontinuous rows, appearing randomly distributed, the stomata randomly oriented in relation to the major leaf axis, with
four to five subsidiary cells arranged in a ring. Epidermal cells irregularly shaped.
