Szekessy Vilmos (szerk.): A Magyar Természettudományi Múzeum évkönyve 54. (Budapest 1962)
Rásky, K.: Tertiary plant remains from Hungary (Upper Eocene and Middle Oligocene)
ANNALES HISTORIGO-NATURALES MUSEI NATIONALIS HUNGARICI Tomus 54. PARS MINERALOGICA ET PALAEONTOLOGICA 1962. Tertiary Plant Remains from Hungary (Upper Eocene and Middle Oligocène) By KLARA RÁSKY, Budapest The present paper adds a number of new species to those already described by the author (1950, 1956, I960), from the Upper Eocene marl formations of the environs of Budapest. Two species are described from the Middle Oligocène clay deposits from the same locality. From the Middle Oligocène clay deposits, the author had previously described (1943) some plant remains from two other sites, to wit, Budapest —Szépvölgy and Budapest — Csillaghegy. The revision of the two small floras had already became urgent and is under work in connection with the identification of the fossil plants of the third locality. The species published in the present paper, from the Upper Eocene marl formation as well as from the Middle Oligocène clay layer, had been found in the area of the former Nagybátony— Újlak brick-yard (Budapest —Óbuda). In this locality, in the cover of the marl formation (the so-called Buda marl) is the heterogene clay deposit (the Kiscell clay). The following new species are herein described : Baloghiaephyllum miocenicum n. comb., Sloaneaecarpum eocenicum n. gen., n. sp., Sloaneaephyllum grambasti n. gen., n. sp., Sloaneaephyllum obudaense n. gen., n. sp., Sloaneaephyllum hungaricum n. gen., n. sp., Petrospermophyllum hornafrantzieni n. sp., and Trimeriaephyllum eocenicum n., gen.,n. sp. CUPRESSACEAE Libocedrus salicornioides (UNG.) HEER (Plate II, Figs. 4-6, and Plate V, Fig 7) Description: There were found smaller branch fragments and the impressions of single, narrower or broader, scale-like leaves. The scale-like leaves are situated decussately on the branches. The flat branches and side-shoots lie in the same plane. Of the remains, some leaves excel with their greater width. The number of veins on the scale-like leaves is 7, rarely 5. Materials: More than 70 branches and leaves among the impressions; no cones or fruits were found. Remarks : The genus, represented by the species Libocedrus cretacea HEER, was found also in the Atanekerdluk Paleocene (formerly believed to be Cretaceous) of West Greenland (HEER 1871, 1882—83). The genus is frequent in the Tertiary of Europe. SAPORTA (1865) recorded the branch remains of Libocedrus from the Upper Oligocène of Armissan in France, WEYLAND (1934) in the fossil flora of the Upper Oligocène of Kreuzau in the Rhine area, KRÄUSEL (1938) from the Aquitanian of Mainz-Kastel, and MÄDLER (1939) from the Pliocene flora of
