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Orites milliganoides
Taxonomy
Orites milliganoides was named by Jordan et al. (1998) [Type locality: Early Oligocene sediments on the Lea River, north-western Tasmania.
Other specimens examined: Lea 2753, Lea 2747, Lea 2748.]. It is not extant. Its type specimen is Holotype: Lea 2746, stored in the Department of Plant Science, University of Tasmania., a leaf. Its type locality is Lea River, which is in an Oligocene terrestrial siltstone in Australia.
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 1998 | Orites milliganoides Jordan et al. p. 470 figs. 2 - 8 |
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†Orites milliganoides Jordan et al. 1998
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Diagnosis
| Reference | Diagnosis | |
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| G. J. Jordan et al. 1998 | Leaf small, obovate, with few teeth. Multiseriate adaxial hypodermis of elongate sclerenchyma cells, 1 or 2 seriate abaxial hypodermis of short, scarcely thickened cells arranged tangentially around stomata to form a reticulum. Epidermal cells almost isodiametric, about half the length of the subsidiary cells or less, stomata longer than broad. |
Measurements
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| Reference: Kiessling 2009 | |||||
Age range: Early/Lower Oligocene or 33.90000 to 27.30000 Ma
Collections: one only
| Time interval | Ma | Country or state | Original ID and collection number |
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| Early/Lower Oligocene | Australia (Tasmania) | Orites milliganoides (type locality: 166597) |