Angiospermae - Alismatales - Hydrocharitaceae
Full reference: R. W. J. van der Ham, J. H. A. van Konijnenburg-van Cittert, and L. Inderherberge. 2007. Seagrass foliage from the Maastrichtian type area (Maastrichtian, Danian, NE Belgium, SE Netherlands). Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology 144(3-4):301-321
Belongs to Thalassotaenia according to R. W. J. van der Ham et al. 2007
See also Panti et al. 2025
Sister taxon: Thalassotaenia notophyllum
Type specimen: NHMM LI 451 and 452, a leaf. Its type locality is CPL Quarry, Hallembaye (Lanaye Member), which is in a Maastrichtian coastal chert in the Gulpen Formation of Belgium.
Ecology: "photoautotroph"
Distribution:
• Cretaceous to Paleogene of the Netherlands (1 collection)
• Cretaceous of Belgium (5), the Netherlands (12)
Total: 18 collections including 19 occurrences
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
Click image to enlarge. Click to access iDigBio record.