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Bisonia

Genus Bisonia K.R. Johnson Proc. Denver Mus. Nat. Hist., Series 3, (12): 6. 1 Apr 1996
Name
Bisonia
Rank
Genus
Authors (Pub.)
Johnson K. R.  
Publication
Description of seven common fossil leaf species from the Hell Creek Formation (Upper Cretaceous: Upper Maastrichtian) North Dakota, South Dakota, Montana [1996/4]
Journal
Proceedings of the Denver Museum of Natural History
Annee/Jahrgang
Series 3
Issue
12
Page number
6
Year
1996
Parent Taxon
[Class] Magnoliopsida
Fossil Status
leaves
Type
Bisonia niemii
Diagnosis
Leaves simple, with rounded lobes and sinuses. Venation basal palinactinodromous. Secondary veins mostly brochidodromous. Tertiary veins mostly percurrent. Sinus of major lobes supported by a vein of secondary or intersecondary rank that forks at the sinus and follows both margins.
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