Plataninium platanoides Page 1968

Angiospermae - Proteales - Platanaceae

Full reference: V. M. Page. 1968. Angiosperm Wood from the Upper Creataceous of Central California: Part II. American Journal of Botany 55(2):168-172

Belongs to Plataninium according to V. M. Page 1968

Sister taxa: Plataninium acerinum, Plataninium californicum, Plataninium crystallophilum, Plataninium haydeni, Plataninium knowltoni, Plataninium pacificum

Type specimen: Stanford University Paleontology Type Collection 9938. Its type locality is Black Gulch, which is in a Maastrichtian marine horizon in the Panoche Formation of California.

Ecology: "photoautotroph"

Distribution: found only at Black Gulch

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