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Quercus bockeeae
Quercus bockeeae Dorf Publ. Carnegie Inst. Washington, 412: 84. Oct 1930
- Name
- Quercus bockeeae
- Rank
- Species
- Original spelling
- bockéei
- Generic Name
- [Genus] Quercus
- Authors (Pub.)
- Dorf E.
- Publication
- Pliocene floras of California [1930/10]
- Journal
- Publications of the Carnegie Institution of Washington
- Volume
- 412
- Page number
- 84
- Year
- 1930
- Parent Taxon
- [Genus] Quercus
- Fossil Status
- leaves
- Stratigraphy
- Pliocene
- Location
- Petrified Forest, California, USA
- Paleoregion
- America (North)
Data for Syntypus
- Repository
- Museum of Paleontology, University of California, Berkeley, USA
- Repository Number
- 348-351
- Diagnosis
- Leaves obovate to obovate-lanceolate, narrowing gradually to a slightly asymmetrical cuneate base and abruptly to an acuminate to elongate-acuminate or caudate-acuminate tip; length from 5 to 16 cm.; width from 1.5 to 5,5 cm.; average dimensions 4.5 by 13.5 cm. (see plate 9 fig. 1) ; petiole stout, 0.5 to 1.8 cm. long, rarely well preserved; midrib heavy, straight or slightly curved below the middle; 12 to 15 pairs of secondaries, sub-opposite to alternate, mostly the latter, sub-parallel, diverging from the midrib at an angle of 50° to 60°, slightly less basally and more apically, straight or more commonly curving slightly upward and terminating in the marginal teeth except in tre basal portion where the teeth are only poorly if at all developed; in a few instances the secondaries fork near the middle, each branch ending in a marginal tooth; tertiary venation .distinct, coarse, and irregularly percurrent at approximately right angles to the secondaries, except in the central portion of the blade where the veins arch in and connect with the midrib; margin dentate except near the base, the teeth bluntly-tipped, equilateral and pointing outward or only slightly upward; texture coriaceous.
