Laurophyllum sp. 2

Martinetto, Edoardo, Bertini, Adele, Mantzouka, Dimitra, Natalicchio, Marcello, Niccolini, Gabriele & Kovar-Eder, Johanna, 2022, Remains Of A Subtropical Humid Forest In A Messinian Evaporitebearing Succession At Govone, Northwestern Italy - Preliminary Results, Fossil Imprint 78 (1), pp. 157-188 : 170

Laurophyllum sp. 2

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M a t e r i a l. An incomplete leaf from GLA20 (MGPTPU141082) and possibly two other nearly complete leaves from the same layer, stored at MPTA ( Cimino et al. 2016: pl.1, fig. 2-left and fig. 3).

D e s c r i p t i o n. MGPT-PU141082 is a leaf fragment lacking base and apex; shape broadly elliptical, l × w about 64 × 30 mm, ratio l/w about 2.1; margin entire, midvein slightly bent, secondaries brochidodromous, widely and irregularly spaced, arising at wide to moderate angles, delicate, curved, occasionally forked, looping near margin, giving rise to exmedial veinlets forming further small loops; intersecondaries occasionally developed; tertiaries widely spaced, (forked) percurrent to reticulate; higher order veins reticulate.

R e m a r k s. The description is based only on specimen MGPT-PU141082 , because the other two leaves stored at MPTA were prepared with a method that would hamper a future cuticular analysis ( Cimino et al. 2016), and without such analysis it is very difficult to be sure that the three leaves belong to the same species. However, these three specimens display a very similar gross morphology, whereas they differ from Laurophyllum sp. 1 by the much broader shape and thinner lamina with well discernible venation .

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Text-fig. 4. Laminated silts with almost complete leaves at the top of bed GLA20: Dicotylophyllum sp. 3 (left: MGPT- PU141032) and Laurophyllum sp. 2 (right: MGPT-PU141082). Scale bar 10 mm.