Acer palaeorufinerve

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Sapindales
Classification System: APG IV Superregnum: Eukaryota Cladus: Diaphoretickes Cladus: CAM Cladus: Archaeplastida Regnum: Plantae Cladus: Angiosperms Cladus: Eudicots Cladus: Core eudicots Cladus: Rosids Cladus: Eurosids II Ordo: Sapindales

Familia: Sapindaceae
Subfamilia: Hippocastanoideae
Tribus: Acereae
Genus: Acer
Sectio: Acer sect. Macrantha
Species: †Acer palaeorufinerve

Name

Acer palaeorufinerve Tanai & Onoe. Geol. Surv. Japan Rept., (187): 49. 30 Jan 1961

Type material

• Holotype: GSJ 4182, 4183
  • Repository: Geological Survey of Japan, Tsukuba, Ibaraki Prefecture, Japan
    • Collector: unknown

Type locality

• Miocene, "Late Miocene"; Mitoku Formation; Mitoku, Misasamachi, Tottori Prefecture, Japan

Etymology

• "Resemblance of the fossils to Acer rufinerve"

Distribution

late Oligocene-early Miocene

• Seldovian
  • Tyonek Formation, Kenai Group; Seldovia Point (USGS 9858); Seldovia Point, Cook Inlet, Kenai Peninsula Borough, Alaska, United States
• Early Miocene
  • Kaminokuni flora; Hiyama Subprefecture, Hokkaido Prefecture, Japan
• Middle Miocene
  • Oguni Fora; Oguni, Yamagata Prefecture, Japan
  • Omi Formation; Mt. Hijiriyam area, Nagano Prefecture, Japan
  • Yoshioka flora; Oshima Subprefecture, Hokkaido Prefecture, Japan
• Late Miocene
  • Gosho flora; Iwate Prefecture, Japan
  • Mitoku Formation; Misasa, Tottori Prefecture, Japan
  • Miyata flora; Akita Prefecture, Japan
  • Nenoshiroishi flora; Miyagi Prefecture, Japan
  • Penkenai Formation; Utanobori, Kamikawa Subprefecture, Hokkaido Prefecture, Japan
  • Shanabuchi Formation; Kamishanabuchi, Minamizawa, Okhotsk Subprefecture, Hokkaido Prefecture, Japan
  • Tatsumitoge Formation; Tatsumitoge site, Tottori Prefecture, Japan
  • Toyohaya Formation; Rubeshibe, Okhotsk Subprefecture, Hokkaido Prefecture, Japan
• Upper Pliocene
  • Akashi Flora; Hyogo Prefecture, Japan
  • "Kabutoiwa Formation", Maisawa Formation, Motojuku Group; Gunma Prefecture, Japan

Neogene

• Hamjindong Formation, North Hamgyong Province, North Korea
• Korf Bay, Kamchatka, Kamchatka Krai, Russia

References

• Tanai T.; Onoe T. 1961. A Mio-Pliocene flora from the Ningyo-toge area on the border between Tottori and Okayama Prefecture, Japan. Geological Survey of Japan Report (187): 1–54, pl. 1-18. https://www.gsj.jp/publications/pub/rep-gsj/houkoku1961.html. 
• Tanai, T. 1983. Revisions of Tertiary Acer from East Asia. Journal of the Faculty of Science, Hokkaido University. Series 4, Geology and Mineralogy 20(4): 291–390.  PDF Reference page. 
• Wolfe, J.A. & Tanai, T. 1987. Systematics, Phylogeny, and Distribution of Acer (maples) in the Cenozoic of Western North America. Journal of the Faculty of Science, Hokkaido University. Series 4, Geology and Mineralogy 22(1): 1–246.  PDF Reference page. 

Links

• IFPNI International Editorial Board 2014–56852-1. The International Fossil Plant Names Index. Acer palaeorufinerve. Published online. Accessed: 56852-1 2025 November 15.