Cornus 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 : 246

Cornus sp.

Text-fig. 14h, i

M a t e r i a l. Oriolo MSF 655.

D e s c r i p t i o n. Leaf, simple, petiolate, lamina broad elliptic, ca. 40 mm long, 28 mm wide, secondary venation distinctly eucamptodromous, three pairs of basal veins originating in lower third of lamina and curving steeply upwards, approaching the entire leaf margin.

R e m a r k s. Cornus may have been an element of riparian vegetation, forest edges, and Šibljak.

Figures

Text-fig. 14. a, b: Acer aff. campestre. a: Oriolo MSF 664. b: Oriolo MSF 666. c, d: Acer aff. monspessulanum. c: Oriolo MSF 641. d: Oriolo MSF 662. e: Acer aff. opulus subsp. obtusatum Oriolo MSF 669. f, g: Acer aff. cappadocicum subsp. lobelii. f: Oriolo MSF 675. g: Oriolo MSF 631. h, i: Cornus sp. Oriolo MSF 655, two views of a strongly folded leaf impression. Scale bars 50 mm (a, e–g), 10 mm (b–d, h, i).