Mespilus aff. germanica

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 : 228

Mespilus aff. germanica L., 1753

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M a t e r i a l. Oriolo MSF 785.

D e s c r i p t i o n. Leaf, simple, lamina elliptic oblong, 50 mm long, 19 mm wide, base acute, secondary venation brochidodromous, tertiary veins perpendicular or slightly oblique to secondary veins, margin entire.

R e m a r k s. A single specimen resembles leaves of M. germanica based on the leaf shape, venation and margin. However, the morphological characteristics preserved in the fossil leaf are not sufficient to unambiguously assign the fossil to the modern species.

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Text-fig. 5. a: Gleditsia aff. caspica Oriolo MSF 935. b: Gleditsia caspica modern leaflet (NMNS Cleared Leaf Database specimen T 1484). c: Crataegus aff. monogyna Oriolo MSF 836. d: Mespilus aff. germanica Oriolo MSF 785. e, g, h: Pyracantha aff. coccinea. e: Oriolo MSF 627. g: Oriolo MSF 627. h: Oriolo MSF 684. f: Pyracantha coccinea modern leaf for comparison (NMNH 03695728). i: Pyracantha coccinea modern leaf for comparison (E00408203). j, k: Sorbus aff. domestica. j: Oriolo MSF 636. k: Oriolo MSF 824. Scale bars 10 mm (a–k).