Onoana californica Chandler and Axelrod 1961 (white pear)

Angiospermae - Icacinales - Icacinaceae

Full reference: M. E. J. Chandler and D. I. Axelrod. 1961. An Early Cretaceous (Hauterivian) angiosperm fruit from California. American Journal of Science 259(6):441-446

Belongs to Onoana according to M. E. J. Chandler and D. I. Axelrod 1961

Sister taxa: none

Type specimen: British l\Iuseum (Nat. History) No. V. 42334, a seed/fruit. Its type locality is Roaring River, Ono, which is in a Hauterivian marine sandstone/mudstone in the Budden Canyon Formation of California.

Ecology: "photoautotroph"

Distribution: found only at Roaring River, Ono

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