†Orites excelsoides Carpenter and Jordan 1997
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Angiospermae - Proteales - Proteaceae
Full reference: R. J. Carpenter and G. J. Jordan. 1997. Early Tertiary Macrofossils of Proteaceae from Tasmania. Australian Systematic Botany 10(4):533-563
Belongs to Orites according to R. J. Carpenter and G. J. Jordan 1997
Sister taxa: Orites bivascularis, Orites milliganoides, Orites scleromorpha, Orites truncata
Type specimen: Holotype: Lev 001, stored in the Department of Plant Science, University of Tasmania. (Leaves). Its type locality is Leven River deposit, which is in an Oligocene terrestrial mudstone in Australia.
Ecology: "photoautotroph"
Distribution: found only at Leven River deposit
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