Populus aff. nigra

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

Populus aff. nigra L., 1753

Text-fig. 11f–h

M a t e r i a l. Oriolo MSF 629, 735, 736, 737, 738, 739,

740, 741, 742.

D e s c r i p t i o n. Leaf, simple, petiolate, petiole> 15 mm long, lamina deltoid, 36–77 mm long, 27–74 mm wide, base truncate, truncate-rounded or cordate, apex attenuate, number of secondary veins 5–7, occasionally basal secondary veins with prominent abmedial veins, margin finely crenate to prominently dentate, teeth inconspicuous or prominent with sigmoid basal side and straight or convex apical side.

R e m a r k s. Similar leaves were reported from Calabrian deposits of northeastern Spain ( Roiron 1983) and from the Pianico-Sèllere lacustrine deposits ( Martinetto 2009).

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).