USNM 37453 Glyptostrobus gronlandicus Heer  

Notes

Hollick (1930)

Pl. 26 Fig. 3

 

 

Locality

From Hollick (1930) (p. 60)

"Yukon River, north bank, 5 miles above Louden station (Nahochatilton) (original No. 22); collected by W. W. Atwood and H. M. Eakin in 1907 (lot 4635) (pl. 10, fig. 3c). Yukon River, north bank, at Pickart's mine (original No. 26); collected by W. W. Atwood and H. M. Eakin in 1907 (lot 4638) (pl. 24, fig. 2). Yukon River, north bank, about 10 miles below Blatchford's mine (original No. 3AH23); collected by Arthur Hollick and Sidney Paige in 1903
(lot 3262) (pl. 26, figs. 1-4)."

 

Locality Map

 

Description

From Hollick (1930) (p. 60)

Plate 10, Figure 3c ; Plate 24, Figure 2; Plate 26, Figures 1-4"

"Glyptostrobus gronlandicus Heer, Die Kreide-Flora der arctischen Zone: Flora fossilis arctica, vol. 3, No.2, p. 76, pl. 17, fig. 9; pl. 20, figs. 9, lOa; pl. 22, fig. 12, 1874." (Heer 1874)

 

Remarks

From Hollick (1930) (p. 60)

"The heterophyllous character of this species is well exemplified in Heer's Figure 9 on Plate 20, and by our Figure 2 on Plate 26, which also includes an immature fruiting twig. The leaves of our specimens appear to be somewhat narrower throughout than in Heer's figures; but the differences between them are too insignificant to warrant anything more than a possible varietal distinction, in any event.

The species is also recorded by Dawson (1885 [1886]) (p. 9, pl. 3, fig. 8) from the Kootenai formation of the Canadian Rocky Mountain region, which is about the equivalent of the Kome beds of Greenland from which Heer's specimens were obtained."