Tilia sp.

Denk, Thomas, Sami, Marco, Teodoridis, Vasilis & Martinetto, Edoardo, 2022, The Late Early Pleistocene Flora Of Oriolo, Faenza (Italy): Assembly Of The Modern Forest Biome, Fossil Imprint 78 (1), pp. 217-262 : 244-246

Tilia sp.

Text-fig. 15a–c

M a t e r i a l. Oriolo MSF 674, 679, 908, n.n.

D e s c r i p t i o n. Leaf, bract; leaf simple, lamina broad ovate, 56–60 mm long, 50–66 mm wide, apex acute, venation pinnate, compound agrophic, basal pair of secondary veins with several prominent abmedial veins, basal abmedial veins with a series of further abmedial veins, secondary venation craspedodromous, margin serrate; bract> 27 mm long, 9 mm wide, midvein branching 17 mm below apex.

R e m a r k s. Tilia was likely part of well-drained lowland mixed forest.

Figures

Text-fig. 15. a–c: Tilia sp. a: Oriolo MSF 679. b: Oriolo MSF n.n., fruiting bract. c: Oriolo MSF 908. d: Fraxinus aff. angustifolia subsp. oxycarpa Oriolo MSF 782. e–i: Hedera aff. helix. Polymorphic leaves. e: Oriolo MSF 628. f: Oriolo MSF 650. g: Oriolo MSF 797. h: Oriolo MSF 799. i: Oriolo MSF 796. Scale bars 50 mm (a, c–e), 10 mm (b, f–i).