Rubus 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 : 230

cf. Rubus sp.

Text-fig. 6a

M a t e r i a l. Oriolo MSF 676, 677, 680.

D e s c r i p t i o n. Leaflet, lamina rhombic obovate, 31–36 mm long, 21–29 mm wide, base rounded, secondary venation craspedodromous, first two pairs of secondary veins with prominent abmedial veins which run into teeth, teeth compound.

R e m a r k s. The leaflet shown in Text-fig. 6a possible represents a terminal leaflet. The assignment to the genus Rubus is tentative, as we cannot exclude that these leaves belong to another rosaceous genus. However, the presence of distinct abmedial veins departing from the second pair of secondary veins and running into prominent teeth is typical of many Rubus spp. Terminal leaflets in the modern R. caesius L. collected by us from the wild in some cases look very similar to the fossil leaflet from Oriolo.

Figures

Text-fig. 6. a: cf. Rubus sp., leaflet Oriolo MSF 676. b, c: cf. Sorbus. b: Oriolo MSF 821. c: MSF 677. d: Spiraea aff. cana Oriolo MSF 944. e: Rhamnus aff. cathartica Oriolo MSF 909. f–l: Ulmus affinis. f: Oriolo MSF 717. g: Oriolo MSF 725. h: Oriolo MSF 724. i: Oriolo MSF 721. j: Oriolo MSF 723. k: Oriolo MSF 637. l: Oriolo MSF 722. m: Zelkova zelkovifolia Oriolo 28 MSF 633. Scale bars 10 mm (a–f, m), 50 mm (g–l).