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Podocarpus platyphyllum

Coniferales - Podocarpaceae

Taxonomy
Podocarpus platyphyllum was named by Greenwood (1987) [Holotype: 1816 (single incomplete leaf with matching cuticle preparation, Figs 21, 28 and 29). Paratypes: 2354, 2362, 2363 and 2364 (single leaves, Figs 22 and 23). Clay lens 70 m below ground surface in the Demons Bluff Formation, 25 m above coal surface, south face of the new workings (1983) of the Alcoa Anglesea open-cut brown coal mine (Eastern View coal measures), Victoria, Australia.]. Its type specimen is Holotype: 1816, is housed in the State Herbarium of South Australia., a leaf (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.

Sister species lacking formal opinion data
P. andiniformis, P. boliviensis, P. kinkelini

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1987Podocarpus platyphyllum Greenwood p. 121 figs. 21-23, 28, 29

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomPlantae
phylumSpermatophyta
phylumPinophyta
orderConiferales
RankNameAuthor
familyPodocarpaceaeEndlicher 1847
genusPodocarpusL'Heritier and Persoon 1807
speciesplatyphyllum

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.

†Podocarpus platyphyllum Greenwood 1987
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Diagnosis
ReferenceDiagnosis
D. R. Greenwood 1987Leaves hypostomatic, bilateral, uninerved, entire-margined, not appearingto taper, dimorphic; large leaves 7-9.5 (n = 2) cm long, 1.2-1.4 cm wide, narrowlyoblong, base cuneate, apex mucronate, other leaves 4-5 cm long, 1.2-1 -4 cm wide, apex not seen. Anticlinal walls of epidermal cells slightly beaded, more so on smaller leaves.
Measurements
No measurements are available
No ecological data are available

Age range: Late/Upper Eocene or 37.20000 to 33.90000 Ma

Collections: one only


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Late/Upper Eocene37.2 - 33.9Australia (Victoria) Podocarpus platyphyllum (type locality: 166825)