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Falcatifolium eocenica

Coniferales - Podocarpaceae

Taxonomy
Falcatifolium eocenica was named by Hill and Scriven (1999). It is considered to be a form taxon. Its type specimen is Holotype: 2350, 2351., a sterile axis (Cuticle), and it is a compression fossil. Its type locality is ALCOA Anglesea Site II coal mine, which is in an Eocene channel mudstone/sandstone in the Demon Bluff Formation of Australia.

Synonyms
  • Dacrycarpus eocenica was named by Greenwood (1987) [Type material and locality. Holotype: 2351 and 2350 (upper and lower parts of fragmented whole twig). Clay lens 70 m below ground level in the Demons Bluff Formation, 25 m above coal surface, south face of the new workings (1983) of the Alcoa Anglesea open-cut (Eastern View Coal measures) Victoria, Australia.]. Its type specimen is Holotype: 2351 and 2350, is housed in the State Herbarium of South Australia., a sterile axis, and it is a compression fossil. Its type locality is ALCOA Anglesea Site II coal mine, which is in an Eocene channel mudstone/sandstone in the Demon Bluff Formation of Australia.

    It was synonymized objectively with Falcatifolium eocenica by Hill and Scriven (1999).
Synonymy list
YearName and author
1987Dacrycarpus eocenica Greenwood p. 116 figs. 6C, 8, 9, 14, 15
1999Falcatifolium eocenica Hill and Scriven

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomPlantae
phylumSpermatophyta
phylumPinophyta
orderConiferales
RankNameAuthor
familyPodocarpaceaeEndlicher 1847
genusFalcatifoliumde Laubenfels 1969
specieseocenica

If no rank is listed, the taxon is considered an unranked clade in modern classifications. Ranks may be repeated or presented in the wrong order because authors working on different parts of the classification may disagree about how to rank taxa.

†Falcatifolium eocenica Hill and Scriven 1999
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Invalid names: Dacrycarpus eocenica Greenwood 1987 [objective synonym]
Diagnosis
ReferenceDiagnosis
D. R. Greenwood 1987 (Dacrycarpus eocenica)Foliage dimorphic; distichous leaves bilateral, falcate, decurrent, loosely imbricate leaves strongly keeled, hypostomatic, sto-mata paratetracytic, in orderly rows, non-stomata1 cells rectangular, length : width (L : W) of cells never greater than 1:3.
R. S. Hill and L. J. Scriven 1999Foliage narrow, bilaterally flattened, curved. Cuticle robust, stomatal polar extensions connect to polar epidermal cells.
Measurements
No measurements are available
No ecological data are available

Age range: Late/Upper Eocene or 37.71000 to 33.90000 Ma

Collections: one only


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Late/Upper Eocene37.71 - 33.9Australia (Victoria) Dacrycarpus eocenica, Falcatifolium eocenica (type locality: 166825)