Populus aff. tremula

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 : 236-237

Populus aff. tremula L., 1753

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M a t e r i a l. Oriolo MSF 749.

D e s c r i p t i o n. Leaf, simple, petiolate, petiole 30 mm long, lamina round,> 33 mm long,> 30 mm wide, base obtuse, 3 pairs of secondary veins, basal pair departing from leaf base, secondary veins and abmedial veins entering blunt, coarse teeth.

R e m a r k s. Such leaves are also known from latest Pliocene (Reuverian) strata of Europe (e.g., Laurent and Marty 1923), and from Early and Middle Pleistocene strata of the Mediterranean region ( Leroy and Roiron 1996, 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).