USNM 37535 Menispermites septentrionalis Hollick  

Notes

Hollick (1930)

Pl. 42 Fig. 4

 

 

Locality

From Hollick (1930) (p. 79)

"Yukon River, south bank, about 25 miles below Mission Creek; collected by J. E. Spurr in 1896 (lot 1555) (pl. 42, fig. 3). Yukon River, north bank, about 17 miles below Nulato (original No. 33); collected by W. W. Atwood and H. M. Eakin in 1907 (lot 4639) (pl. 42, fig. 4)."

 

Locality Map

 

Description

From Hollick (1930) (p. 79)

"Plate 42, Figures 3, 4"

"Leaf of unknown form and dimensions, peltate; nervation palmate, radiating, consisting of a straight midrib, a pair of ascending, major lateral primaries, and lower spreading ones that become successively shorter and weaker, all with forking branches."

 

Remarks

From Hollick (1930) (p. 79)

"This leaf is apparently more or less comparable with menispermites grandis Lesquereux (1883) (p. 80, pl. 15, figs. 1, 2) from the Dakota sandstone of Kansas, but has stronger, more rigid nervation. It is also more or less suggestive of the leaf from the Fruitland formation of northwestern New Mexico designated Ficus sp. by Knowlton (1916) (p. 339, pl. 88, fig. 1)."