Euryale tenuicostata Temporal range: | |
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Scientific classification ![]() | |
Kingdom: | Plantae |
Clade: | Tracheophytes |
Clade: | Angiosperms |
Order: | Nymphaeales |
Family: | Nymphaeaceae |
Genus: | Euryale |
Species: | †E. tenuicostata |
Binomial name | |
†Euryale tenuicostata |
Euryale tenuicostata is a fossil species of Euryale from the Miocene of Omsk, Russia. [1]
The ovoid to oval, 4.3–7.6 mm long, and 2.9–7.1 mm wide seeds have a slightly wrinkled testa. [2]
It was first published as Euryale tenuicostataP.I. Dorof. by Pavel Ivanovich Dorofeev in 1959. [1] It has been proposed to place it in a separate genus IrtysheniaP.I. Dorof. as Irtyshenia tenuicostata(P.I. Dorof.) P.I. Dorof. published by Pavel Ivanovich Dorofeev in 1972. [3] [4] Later it was proposed to place it in the genus PseudoeuryaleP.I. Dorof. as Pseudoeuryale tenuicostata(P.I. Dorof.) Doweld published by Alexander Borisovitch Doweld in 2022. [5] [6]
Fossils of E. tenuicostata occur in what is now Russia. [1]