Laurus macrocarpa Lesq.
Plant Fossil Names Registry Number: PFN003736
Act LSID: urn:lsid:plantfossilnames.org:act:3736
Author: C. L. Lesquereux
Rank: species
Reference for this name: Lesquereux, C. L. (1886): On some Cretaceous fossil plants from Nebraska. – American Journal of Science and Arts 46: 91–105.
Page of description: 74
Types
Lectotype USNM 42600, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C., United States
designated in Manchester, S. R. & Crane, P. R. (2026): Laurus macrocarpa Lesquereux from the mid- Cretaceous (Cenomanian) Dakota Formation is a chlamydospermous seed, not an angiosperm fruit. – Acta Palaeobot. 66(1): 51–66.
Figures: Figs 2A, 5A-I
PFNR Number: PFN003737 / Act LSID: urn:lsid:plantfossilnames.org:act:3737
Stratigraphy
Cretaceous
Dakota Formation, Albian-Cenomanian
Locality
United States
Fort Ellsworth, Nebraska, USA
Plant fossil remain
macro- and meso-fossils-embryophytes except wood - angiosperm
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