Remains Of A Subtropical Humid Forest In A Messinian Evaporitebearing Succession At Govone, Northwestern Italy - Preliminary Results Author Martinetto, Edoardo Author Bertini, Adele Author Mantzouka, Dimitra Author Natalicchio, Marcello Author Niccolini, Gabriele Author Kovar-Eder, Johanna text Fossil Imprint 2022 2022-08-26 78 1 157 188 http://dx.doi.org/10.37520/fi.2022.007 journal article 10.37520/fi.2022.007 2533-4069 7167791 Genus? Ocotea AUBL., 1775 cf. Ocotea heeri (C.T.GAUDIN, 1857) W.R.MÜLL., 1934 Pl. 2, Figs 11, 12 M a t e r i a l. Two almost complete leaves (MGPTPU141018, MGPT-PU141096) and a large fragment from the central part of the lamina (MGPT-PU141097), all from GLA20. D e s c r i p t i o n. MGPT-PU141018 represents the lamina of an almost complete simple leaf, shape elliptic; base shape convex, base angle obtuse, apex not preserved, l × w about 56 × 28 mm , ratio l/w about 2; margin entire; midvein slender, rather straight, secondaries brochidodromous, widely spaced, arising at moderately steep angles, intersecondaries present, tertiaries partly percurrent, partly reticulate, widely spaced, higher order veins reticulate. R e m a r k s. The coarse secondary and tertiary veins distinguish these leaves among others reported from the Neogene of Italy . The preservation of the two almost entire specimens does not allow discernment of the diagnostically relevant domatia at the base of the basal secondaries ( Martinetto 2003 : pl. 5, figs 8–10). However, the original presence of a domatium is suggested by a thickened globular structure of organic material at the base of a secondary vein of the large leaf fragment (Pl. 2, Fig. 12b).