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Acer hillsi
Taxonomy
Acer hillsi was named by Wolfe and Tanai (1987). Its type specimen is UWBM 56260 A&B, a seed/fruit (Samara), and it is a compression fossil. Its type locality is Republic, UWBM locality A0307, which is in a Ypresian lacustrine - large mudstone in the Klondike Mountain Formation of Washington.
Sister species lacking formal opinion data
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 1987 | Acer hillsi Wolfe and Tanai |
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†Acer hillsi Wolfe and Tanai 1987
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Diagnosis
| Reference | Diagnosis | |
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| J. A. Wolfe and T. Tanai 1987 | Fruit samaroid; nutlet at basal end; nutlet asymmetrically inflated, outline semicircular, 0.5 cm long, 0.5 cm wide; attachment angle 40°, nutlet angle 20°. Wing entirely apical of nutlet, with a pronounce V-shaped sulcus; > 2.0 cm long, 1.0 cm wide; distal margin straight basally, expanding and broadly convex apically; 5 veins coalesced along proximal margin; wing veins diverging at angles of 10° to 20°, extending almost straight, bifurcating 2 to 4 times, few anstomoses of veinlets. |
Measurements
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