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Araucarioides linearis
Taxonomy
Araucarioides linearis was named by Bigwood and Hill (1985). Its type specimen is Holotype: RPE-010, housed in the Botany Department Collection, University of Tasmania., a leaf (Cuticles), and it is a compression fossil. Its type locality is Regatta Point Eocene, which is in an Eocene fluvial-deltaic mudstone/sandstone in Australia. It is the type species of Araucarioides.
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
|---|---|
| 1985 | Araucarioides linearis Bigwood and Hill p. 647 figs. 1-4 |
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†Araucarioides linearis Bigwood and Hill 1985
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Diagnosis
| Reference | Diagnosis | |
|---|---|---|
| A. J. Bigwood and R. S. Hill 1985 | Leaves bilateral, linear to lanceolate. Incomplete leaf 160 mm long, 10-15 mm broad. Leaf apex and base unknown. No visible midrib. Margins entire, flat and not appreciably thickened. Veins numerous, unbranching, parallel and inconspicuous. Leaf amphistomatous. Stomatal arrangement predominantly oblique, in 2-4 long rows between veins. Subsidiary cells level with the leaf surface. |
Measurements
No measurements are available
No ecological data are available
Age range: Early/Lower Eocene or 56.00000 to 48.07000 Ma
Collections (2 total)
| Time interval | Ma | Country or state | Original ID and collection number |
|---|---|---|---|
| Early/Lower Eocene | Australia (Tasmania) | Araucarioides linearis (166741 type locality: 166977) |