Alnus cecropiifolia (ETTINGSHAUSEN) BERGER

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 : 264

Alnus cecropiifolia (ETTINGSHAUSEN) BERGER

Pl. 9, Fig. 13

Incomplete leaf widely elliptic, 55 mm long and 54 mm wide, apex and base not preserved, margin poorly preserved, irregularly simple serrate, teeth acute, sinus angular, venation simply craspedodromous, midrib straight, strong, secondaries alternate, thinner, regularly spaced, straight, tertiary veins poorly visible, alternate percurrent, straight to curved, venation of the higher orders not preserved.

This broad-leaved alder is a typical tree of swamps and riparian forests in the late Miocene of the Paratethys area ( Knobloch 1969, Kvaček et al. 2002). In the Pliocene of Italy it has been found, associated with Glyptostrobus in deposits of swamp facies ( Martinetto 1994, Martinetto and Farina 2005).

M a t e r i a l. Leaf impression (Tossignano MSF260).