Ginkgo dissecta

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Ginkgoales
Superregnum: Eukaryota Cladus: Diaphoretickes Cladus: CAM Cladus: Archaeplastida Regnum: Plantae Divisio: Tracheophyta Divisio: Ginkgophyta Classis: Ginkgoopsida Ordo: Ginkgoales

Familia: Ginkgoaceae
Genus: Ginkgo
Species: †Ginkgo dissecta

Name

†Ginkgo dissecta Mustoe, 2002

Type locality

Eocene, Ypresian; Eocene Okanagan Highlands; Tranquille Formation, Kamloops Group; McAbee site, west of Cache Creek, Columbia-Shuswap Regional District, British Columbia, Canada

Type Material

Holotype: WWU-GK-202 (McAbee)
- Repository: Western Washington University, Bellingham, Whatcom County, Washington, USA
Paratype: WWU-GK-008 (McAbee)
- Repository: Western Washington University, Bellingham, Whatcom County, Washington, USA

Etymology

not specified, but noted to be a formalization of the name first used in 1974 in an unpublished thesis by Verschoor

Distribution

Eocene

Ypresian
Eocene Okanagan Highlands
- Allenby Formation, Princeton Group; One Mile Creek, Princeton area, Regional District of Okanagan-Similkameen, British Columbia, Canada
- Tranquille Formation, Kamloops Group; Falkland site, Estekwalan Mountain, Columbia-Shuswap Regional District, British Columbia, Canada
- Tranquille Formation, Kamloops Group; McAbee site, west of Cache Creek, Columbia-Shuswap Regional District, British Columbia, Canada
- Tom Thumb tuff, Klondike Mountain Formation, Republic, Ferry County, Washington, USA

References

Mustoe, G. E 2002. Eocene Ginkgo leaf fossils from the Pacific Northwest. Canadian Journal of Botany 80(10): 1078–1087. doi:10.1139/b02-097.