Craspedodromophyllum P.R.Crane
Plant Fossil Names Registry Number: PFN002650
Act LSID: urn:lsid:plantfossilnames.org:act:2650
Author: P. R. Crane
Rank: genus
Reference: Crane, P. R. (1981): Betulaceous leaves and fruits from the British Upper Palaeocene. – Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society 83(2): 103–136.
Page of description: 107
Type
Craspedodromophyllum acutum P.R.Crane
Original diagnosis/description
Leaves simple. Margin serrate, teeth simple or compound. Venation pinnate, craspedodromous. Secondary veins straight or slightly admedially concave, terminating in the primary teeth. Subsidiary teeth, where present, supplied by curving abmedial branches from the supra-adjacent secondary.
Etymology
From the type of venation exhibited by the fossil.
Plant fossil remain
macro- and meso-fossils-embryophytes except wood
Names associated with genus
Craspedodromophyllum acutum P.R.Crane 1981
Craspedodromophyllum boguchanicum M.Moiseeva, Kodrul et A.B.Herman 2018
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