Ulmaceae

Erdei, Bolgárka, Hably, Lilla, Héja, Gábor & Fodor, László, 2022, The Late Oligocene Macroflora Of Zsámbék, Central Hungary, Fossil Imprint 78 (1), pp. 298-309 : 301

cf. Ulmaceae gen. et sp. 2

Pl.3, Fig. 1

M a t e r i a l. HNHM-PBO 2021.185.2.

D e s c r i p t i o n. A small leaf, lamina is 2.4 cm long, and 1.6 cm wide. Lamina is elliptic, slightly asymmetric in shape, margin is toothed. Teeth are small. Venation is craspedodromous, tertiary veins are not visible.

D i s c u s s i o n. The fragment resembles a smallleaved form of elm, different from leaves of the above described cf. Ulmaceae gen. et sp. 1 (probably comparable to U. pyramidalis ). In the Hungarian Egerian similar leaves were published from Pomáz locality as Ulmus braunii HEER where it is relatively frequent ( Hably 1994). It was also recorded in Late Miocene floras of Hungary ( Hably 2013). Since details of margin pattern and tooth morphology are not clearly visible, the leaf is tentatively assigned to Ulmaceae .