Daphnogene UNGER, 1850

Martinetto, Edoardo, Bertini, Adele, Mantzouka, Dimitra, Natalicchio, Marcello, Niccolini, Gabriele & Kovar-Eder, Johanna, 2022, Remains Of A Subtropical Humid Forest In A Messinian Evaporitebearing Succession At Govone, Northwestern Italy - Preliminary Results, Fossil Imprint 78 (1), pp. 157-188 : 170

Fossil-genus Daphnogene UNGER, 1850

Daphnogene polymorpha (A.BRAUN) ETTINGSH., 1851 Pl. 2, Fig. 9

M a t e r i a l. A single leaf impression from layer GLA30

(MGPT-PU141016).

D e s c r i p t i o n. Rather complete simple leaf except missing apex, shape elliptic to slightly obovate, petiole not preserved, base shape slightly convex, base angle obtuse, l × w about 60 × 30 mm, ratio l/w about 2; margin entire, venation suprabasal acrodromous, the basal secondaries running into the apical part of the leaf, next pair of secondaries only in the apical part of the lamina, secondaries brochidodromous; tertiaries hardly visible.

R e m a r k s. The well-preserved basal secondaries that reach into the apical part of the leaf are characteristic. In Ocotea the basal secondaries are shorter and less strong.