Juglandiphyllites graefii J.Kvaček, F.Messner et Bernhard

Plant Fossil Names Registry Number: PFN003454

Act LSID: urn:lsid:plantfossilnames.org:act:3454

Authors: J. Kvaček, F. Messner & F. Bernhard

Rank: species

Genus:

Reference for this name: Kvaček, J., Messner, F. & Bernhard, F. (2026): Late Cretaceous (Santonian – lower Campanian) flora of Geistthal. – Cretaceous Research 180: 1–20.

Page of description: 13

Illustrations or figures: Fig. 9A-E

Original diagnosis/description

Leaflets entire-margined, elongate, with acute apex and rounded asymmetrical base. Venation pinnate, strongly asymmetric, secondaries leaving midrib at two different angles, at wider angles (up to 90◦) on one side of midvein than the other (40–60◦). Venation eucamptodromous. Tertiary veins poorly developed.

Etymology

the Department of Geology and Palaeontology in the Universalmuseum earlier Landesmuseum Joanneum in Graz, who studied the „Kainacher Gosau”, and collected some of the fossil plants studied here, including the holotype.

Stratigraphy

Cretaceous, Upper Cretaceous, Campanian
Afling Formation, lower Campanian, Upper Cretaceous

Locality

Austria
road Geistthal-Römaskogel, Kainach, Styria