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Quercus wischgrundensis
Quercus wischgrundensis U. Striegler Peckiana, 12: 42, 75. 19 Sep 2017
- Name
- Quercus wischgrundensis
- Rank
- Species
- Generic Name
- [Genus] Quercus
- Authors (Pub.)
- Striegler U.
- Publication
- Die obermiozäne Flora des Blättertons von Wischgrund und anderer gleichaltriger Fundstellen der Klettwitzer Hochfläche (Niederlausitz, Land Brandenburg, Deutschland) [2017/9]
- Journal
- Peckiana
- Volume
- 12
- Page number
- 42, 75
- Year
- 2017
- Fossil Status
- leaves
- Stratigraphy
- Tortonian
- Strat. comment
- Rauno Formation
- Location
- clay pit Wischgrund near Lauchhammer, Lower Lusatia, Brandenburg, Germany (in the year 1987 devastated by opencast mine Klettwitz)
- Paleoregion
- Eurasia (Europe)
Data for Holotypus
- Repository
- Museum der Natur und Umwelt, Cottbus, Germany
- Repository Number
- Section Geology, No. F6026/6036 both impressions of the same leaf)
- Diagnosis
- Leaves narrow elliptic, lanceolate, rarely
oblanceolate or narrow oblong; base symmetrical, apex
attenuate; ratio length/width (2,5) 2,7 - >3,7, more narrow
than Fagus leaves. Margin uniserrate; teeth small, acute
to obtuse. Venation pinnate, 10-14 secondary veins,
craspedodromous; straightly (not curved upwards) terminating
in teeth; the typical Quercus vein is present,
branching-off upwards from each secondary vein near
the margin of leaf.
