Feather Palm Foliage From The Messinian Of Italy (Capo Di Fiume, Palena And Pollenzo Near Alba) Within The Framework Of Northern Mediterranean Late Miocene Flora Author Teodoridis, Vasilis Department of Biology and Environmental Studies, Faculty of Education, Charles University in Prague, Magdalény Rettigové 4, 116 39 Prague 1, the Czech Republic; e-mail: vasilis. teodoridis @ pedf. cuni. cz Author Kvaček, Zlatko Institute of Geology and Palaeontology, Faculty of Science, Charles University in Prague, Albertov 6, 128 43 Prague 2, the Czech Republic; e-mail: kvacek @ natur. cuni. cz Author Agostini, Silvano Soprintendenza Archeologia dell'Abruzzo, Via degli Agostiniani 14, I- 66100 Chieti, Italy; e-mail: silvano. agostini @ beniculturali. it Author Martinetto, Edoardo Dipartimento di Scienze della Terra, Università degli Studi di Torino, Via Valperga Caluso 35, I- 10123 Torino, Italy; e-mail: edoardo. martinetto @ unito. it Author Rossi, Maria Adelaide Soprintendenza Archeologia dell'Abruzzo, Via degli Agostiniani 14, I- 66100 Chieti, Italy; e-mail: mariaadelaide. rossi @ beniculturali. it Author Cavallo, Oreste Museo Civico ‘‘ Federico Eusebio’ ’, Via Vittorio Emanuele 19, I- 12051, Alba (CN), Italy; e-mail: museo @ comune. alba. cn. it text Acta Musei Nationalis Pragae Series B 2015 2015-12-31 71 3 - 4 301 314 https://www.mendeley.com/catalogue/b6095b42-01c4-3ed5-836a-e816bf78ff52/ journal article 10.14446/AMNP.2015.301 2533-4069 13183600 ? Fagaceae DUMORTIER One morphotype of entire-margined petiolate leaf is assigned here to cf. Trigonobalanopsis rhamnoides ( ROSSMÄSSLER ) KVAČEK et WALTHER (Pl. 3, Fig. 9). It is an incomplete elliptic petiolate leaf with entire margin and brochidodromous venation. The leaf form resembles foliage with rhamnoid venation produced by regularly spaced secondaries so typically developed in this fossil fagaceous element, distributed in the Eocene to Pliocene of Europe ( Kvaček and Walther 1988 ). For a definite attribution of the material it is necessary to have evidence of the epidermal anatomy which is not available in the examined specimen. Trigonobalanopsis rhamnoides was well represented in the Neogene of Italy having been previously called Castanopsis toscana ( BANDULSKA ) KRÄUSEL et WEYLAND ( Kräusel and Weyland 1950 , Fischer and Butzmann 2000 ).