Dicotylophyllum sp. 3

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 : 174

Dicotylophyllum sp. 3

Text-fig. 4 (left), Pl. 4, Figs 9, 10

M a t e r i a l. The best-preserved leaf (MPTA 13371) was already figured by Cimino et al. (2016), and a similar specimen was recovered in the year 2020 (MGPTPU141032); both leaves originate from GLA20.

D e s c r i p t i o n. Leaf simple, petiole not preserved, lamina elliptic, l × w = 110 × 40 mm, ratio l/w = 2.5; base shape rather straight, base angle narrow acute; apex shape straight, angle acute, utmost apex blunt; margin entire; midvein straight; secondaries festooned brochidodromous, numerous, arising under narrow angles, ascending steeply, giving rise to exmedial veins; partly composite intersecondaries developed; secondaries, intersecondaries and their branches forming elongated meshes; tertiaries and higher order veins reticulate.

R e m a r k s. The systematic affinity of these leaves remains open.

Figures

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.