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Araucarioides sinuosa
Taxonomy
Araucarioides sinuosa was named by Bigwood and Hill (1985). Its type specimen is Holotype: RPE-051, housed in the Botany Department Collection, University of Tasmania., a cuticle, and it is a compression fossil. Its type locality is Regatta Point Eocene, which is in an Eocene fluvial-deltaic mudstone/sandstone in Australia.
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
|---|---|
| 1985 | Araucarioides sinuosa Bigwood and Hill p. 648 figs. 5-7 |
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†Araucarioides sinuosa Bigwood and Hill 1985
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Diagnosis
| Reference | Diagnosis | |
|---|---|---|
| A. J. Bigwood and R. S. Hill 1985 | Leaves incomplete. Length, width, base and apex unknown. No visible midrib. Margins entire, flat and not appreciably thickened. Veins numerous, unbranching, parallel and inconspicuous.
Stomates on both leaf surfaces but with differing densities. Stomatal arrangement predominantly transverse to oblique, usually in rows of varying length over the leaf surface. Subsidiary cells level with 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: one only
| Time interval | Ma | Country or state | Original ID and collection number |
|---|---|---|---|
| Early/Lower Eocene | Australia (Tasmania) | Araucarioides sinuosa (type locality: 166977) |