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Orites scleromorpha
Taxonomy
Orites scleromorpha was named by Jordan et al. (1998) [Type locality: Early Oligocene sediments on the Lea River, north-western Tasmania.
Other specimens examined: Lea 1757, Lea 1758, Lea 2749-Lea 2753.]. It is not extant. Its type specimen is Holotype: Lea 1554 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 scleromorpha Jordan et al. p. 472 figs. 14 - 21 |
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†Orites scleromorpha Jordan et al. 1998
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Diagnosis
| Reference | Diagnosis | |
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| G. J. Jordan et al. 1998 | Leaves small, linear, sparsely and finely serrate. Multiseriate adaxial hypodermis of elongate sclerenchyma cells, 1–2 seriate abaxial hypodermis of short, scarcely thickened cells arranged tangentially around stomata to form a reticulum. Epidermal cells almost isodiametric, less than half the length of the subsidiary cells, stomata scarcely 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 scleromorpha (type locality: 166597) |