Coriaria aff. myrtifolia

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 : 236

Coriaria aff. myrtifolia L., 1753

Text-fig. 11a, b

M a t e r i a l. Oriolo, MSF 647-1, 677, 704, 706, 707,

708, 709, 709-1, 711-1, 713.

D e s c r i p t i o n. Leaf, simple, subsessile, lamina elliptic, broad lanceolate, 23–39 mm long, 9–17 mm wide, base acute to obtuse, apex acute, primary venation acrodromous, three primary veins, occasionally an additional lateral vein departing from a lateral primary vein, giving lamina an asymmetrical appearance (cf. Text-fig. 11b , right half of the lamina), secondary veins connecting central and lateral primary veins departing from central vein at steep angles, margin entire.

R e m a r k s. Leaves of this type are found, although rare, in the Pliocene of the Piedmont; more frequent are the seeds of this genus, also present in the Pleistocene of Stirone ( Gregor 1986). The latter are not related to C. myrtifolia of the Mediterranean region , but to Asian species .

Figures

Text-fig. 11. a, b: Coriaria aff. myrtifolia. a: Oriolo MSF 647. b: Oriolo MSF 704. c, d: Populus aff. alba. c: Oriolo MSF 745. d: Oriolo MSF 725. e: Populus aff. tremula Oriolo MSF 749. f–h: Populus aff. nigra. f: Oriolo MSF 737. g: Oriolo MSF 742. h: Oriolo MSF 738. Scale bars 10 mm (a–d), 50 mm (e–h).