Dicotylophyllum sp. 8

Teodoridis, Vasilis, Kvaček, Zlatko, Sami, Marco, Utescher, Torsten & Martinetto, Edoardo, 2015, Palaeoenvironmental Analysis Of The Messinian Macrofossil Floras Of Tossignano And Monte Tondo (Vena Del Gesso Basin, Romagna Apennines, Northern Italy), Acta Musei Nationalis Pragae Series B 71 (3 - 4), pp. 249-292 : 268

Dicotylophyllum sp. 8

Pl. 12, Fig. 16

Leaf elliptical 24 mm long and 9 mm wide, apex blunt, base widely cuneate with complete petiole 6 mm long, margin entire, venation brochidodromous, primary vein distinct, moderate, secondary veins thinner, coarsely spaced, indistinct, subopposite to alternate, straight, looping close to the distinct intramarginal vein, venation of the higher orders poorly preserved.

The leaf resembles Buxus LINNAEUS. However , the venation details such as intramarginal vein, less dense secondary veins contradict this determination.

M a t e r i a l. Leaf impressions (Monte Tondo MSF1531,

MSF1604).