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Monarophyllum bilateralis
Taxonomy
Monarophyllum bilateralis was named by Whang and Hill (1999) [Type locality: Lake Bungarby, (36°09'S, 149°08'E), south-eastern New South Wales.
Collectors: Greg Jordan, Graham Taylor and Leanne Dansie.]. It is considered to be a form taxon. Its type specimen is Holotype: LB-046, housed in the Department of Environmental Biology, University of Adelaide., a sterile axis (Cuticle), and it is a compression fossil. Its type locality is Lake Bungarby, which is in a Paleocene terrestrial mudstone in Australia. It is the type species of Monarophyllum.
Synonymy list
Year | Name and author |
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1999 | Monarophyllum bilateralis Whang and Hill p. 251 figs. 18-21 |
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†Monarophyllum bilateralis Whang and Hill 1999
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Diagnosis
Reference | Diagnosis | |
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S. S. Whang and R. S. Hill 1999 | Leaves bilaterally flattened, in opposite pairs, not petiolate; cuticle robust, outer surface papillate, deep indentations on inner cuticular surface mark positions of papillae. |
Measurements
No measurements are available
No ecological data are available
Age range: Late/Upper Paleocene or 58.70000 to 55.80000 Ma
Collections: one only
Time interval | Ma | Country or state | Original ID and collection number |
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Late/Upper Paleocene | Australia (New South Wales) | Monarophyllum bilateralis (type locality: 166738) |