USNM 37465 Liriodendropsis simplex (Newberry) Newberry  

Notes

Hollick (1930)

Pl. 28 Fig. 4b

 

 

Locality

From Hollick (1930) (p. 80)

"Yukon River, north bank, about 1 1/2 miles above Williams mine (original No. 36); collected by W. W. Atwood and H. M. Eakin in 1907 (lot 4642)."

 

Locality Map

 

Description

From Hollick (1930) (p. 80)

"Plate 28,Figure 4b"

"Liriodendropsis simplex (Newberry), Newberry, The flora of the Amboy clays: U.S. Geol. Survey Mon. 26, p. 83, pl. 19, figs. 2, 3; pl. 53, figs. 1-4, 7, 1895 [1896]." (Newberry 1895 [1896])
"Liriodendron simplex Newberry, Torrey Bot. Club Bull., vol. 14, p. 6, pl. 62, figs. 2-3 [excl. fig. 4], 1887." (Newberry 1887)

 

Remarks

From Hollick (1930) (p. 80)

"The type represented by the many leaves that have been referred to this and allied species and varieties is one of considerable diversity, so far as size and shape are concerned; but the nervation is consistently characteristic throughout, and there can be little doubt that our leaf belongs to the species or variety or form to which it is here referred. The correct taxonomic position of the genus is open to question and has been questioned by nearly every author who has had occasion to study it; but in order to avoid further discussion, I have included it, tentatively, in the position to which the author of the genus originally assigned it. (Newberry 1895 [1896]) (p.82)

In its most restricted application the species has a distribution that includes the Raritan formation of New Jersey (Newberry 1895 [1896]) (p. 83, pl. 19, figs. 2, 3; pl. 53, figs. 1 - 4, 7) the Magothy formation of Staten Island and Long Island, N. Y., and Marthas Vineyard, Mass., (Hollick 1906) (p. 72, pl. 23, figs. 1 - 5, 7; pl. 24, figs. 4 - 9; pl. 25, figs. 4, 5, 7, 10 - 12; pl. 26, figs. 1b, c, d) and the Tuscaloosa formation of Alabama (Berry 1919) (p. 101, pl. 22, fig.6)"