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Meliosma truncata
Taxonomy
Meliosma truncata was named by MacGinitie (1941). Its type specimen is U.C. Mus. Pal. Paleobot. Ser. holotype no. 2296. Its type locality is UCMP loc. PA971, Independence Hill, which is in an Eocene floodplain shale in California.
Sister species lacking formal opinion data
M. beusekomii, M. beusekomii, M. bonesii, M. buchananifolia, M. caucasica, M. elongicarpa, M. europaea, M. flexuosa, M. jenkinsii, M. leptocarpa, M. lincangensis, M. miessleri, M. myriantha, M. obtusifolia, M. oldhami, M. pliocaenica, M. predentata, M. reticulata, M. rigidofolia, M. shanwangensis, M. sheppyensis, M. tenuis, M. wetteraviensis
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 1941 | Meliosma truncata MacGinitie |
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†Meliosma truncata MacGinitie 1941
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
No measurements are available
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Age range: Middle Eocene or 48.07000 to 37.71000 Ma
Collections: one only
| Time interval | Ma | Country or state | Original ID and collection number |
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| Middle Eocene | USA (California) | Meliosma truncata (type locality: 24002) |