Tetraclinis salicornioides (UNGER) KVA Č EK, 1989

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 : 168

Tetraclinis salicornioides (UNGER) KVA Č EK, 1989

Text-fig. 7a

M a t e r i a l. Two shoot fragments from layer GLA10

(MGPT-PU141083).

D e s c r i p t i o n. Fragments of plagiotropic leafy shoots with dimorphic scale leaves in whorls of four, with shallow longitudinal furrows on the broad facial leaves. Lateral leaves narrow and indistinct at the base.

R e m a r k s. Comparable and more abundant shoot fragments in association with cones are reported from the post-evaporitic Messinian of a neighbouring locality ( Niccolini et al. 2022).

Figures

Text-fig. 7. Stereomicroscope microphotographs of plant remains sieved out of a sediment bulk sample (C3X) from bed GLA10 of Govone. a: Tetraclinis salicornioides (UNGER) KVAČEK, shoot fragment, MGPT-PU141083). b: Toddalia latisiliquata (R.LUDW.) H.-J. GREGOR, seed, MGPT-PU141084. c: Toddalia rhenana H.-J.GREGOR, seed, MGPT-PU141085. d: Eurya stigmosa (R.LUDW.) MAI, small seed with piths filled by organic remains and sediment, MGPT-PU141086. e: Eurya stigmosa (R.LUDW.) MAI, fragmentary seed, MGPT-PU141087. f: Visnea germanica MENZEL, fruit from two opposite sides, MGPT-PU141088. g: Symplocos casparyi R.LUDW., endocarp in lateral view from two opposite sides, MGPT-PU141089. Scale bar 1 mm.