Locality

From Hollick (1930) (p. 70)

"Yukon River, north bank, about 13 miles below Melozi telegraph station (original No. 3AH12); collected by Arthur Hollick and Sidney Paige in 1903 (lot 3249)."

 

Locality Map

 

Description

From Hollick (1930) (p. 70)

"Plate 35, Figure 1"

Quercus eamesi Trelease, Brooklyn Bot. Gard. Mem., vol. 1, . p. 499, 1918 (= Q. salicifolia Newberry, Lyceum Nat. Hist. New York Annals, vol. 9, pt. 24, 1868; The later extinct floras of North America: U. S. Geol. Survey Mon. 35, p. 77, pl. 1, fig. 1, 1898. Not Q. salicifolia Nee, 1801)." (Trelease 1918)

 

Remarks

From Hollick (1930) (p. 70)

"This leaf agrees in general characters with the description and figure of Newberry's species from the Dakota sandstone of Nebraska; but the type of leaf represented by the species is so common that only perfect specimens, with all critical characters preserved, are satisfactory for positive identification, and it is probable that several similar Upper Cretaceous leaf forms, referred to species in the genera Salix, Myrica, etc., may be referable to one and the same species, as, for example, Salix pacifica Dawson (1882 [1883]) (p. 26, pl. 7, fig. 24) from Vancouver Island; Salix foliosa Newberry (1898) (p. 57, pl. 13, figs. 5, 6) from New Mexico; and certain of those included under Myrica longa (Heer) Heer (1882) (p. 65, pl. 18, fig. 9b; pl. 18, fig. 9b; pl. 29, figgs. 15 - 1; pl. 33, fig. 10; pl. 41, figs. 4b, 4d. [=Proteoidies longus Heer, Die Kreide-Flora der arctischen Zone: Idem, vol. 3, No.2, p. 110, pl. 29, fig. 8b; pl. 31, figs. 4, 5, 1874]) from the Atane beds of Greenland.

It is almost certain that our specimen is identical with some one or another of these species, and inasmuch as it appears to resemble the genus Quercus and to compare closely with Newberry's species under that genus, at least a provisional reference to Quercus seems to be justified."