TABLE 1. Summary of specimen included in MORPHYLL until now. 1Location number as in Figure 1. 2Museums: GDKE: Generaldirektion Kulturelles Erbe Rheinland-Pfalz, Mainz. MfN: Museum für Naturkunde, Berlin. MMG: Museum of Mineralogy and Geology, Dresden. MNHN: Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle, Paris. NHM: Natural History Museum, Vienna. NMP: National Museum Prague. RBINS: Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Science, Brussels. SMNS: State Museum of Natural History, Stuttgart. 3The fossil site “Rauenberg” is also known as “Frauenweiler”.
Location number1 | Number of specimens | Fossil site [Country] |
Age | Epoch | Institution2 and City |
1 | 54 | Eferding [Austria] | Egerian | Miocene | NHM, Vienna [Austria] |
2a | 13 | Linz-Ebelsberg [Austria] | Aquitanian | Miocene | NHM, Vienna [Austria] |
2b | 87 | Linz-Pucking [Austria] | Aquitanian | Miocene | NHM, Vienna [Austria] |
2c | 42 | Linz-Weikerlsee [Austria] | Aquitanian | Miocene | NHM, Vienna [Austria] |
3 | 30 | Borna-Ost/Bockwitz [Germany] | Chattian | Oligocene | MMG, Dresden [Germany] |
4 | 417 | Enspel [Germany] | Chattian | Oligocene | GDKE, Mainz [Germany] |
5 | 331 | Kleinsaubernitz [Germany] | Chattian | Oligocene | MMG, Dresden [Germany] |
6 | 27 | Rott [Germany] | Chattian | Oligocene | RBINS, Brussels [Belgium] |
7 | 26 | Witznitz [Germany] | Chattian | Oligocene | MMG, Dresden [Germany] |
8 | 217 | Rauenberg3 [Germany] | Rupelian | Oligocene | SMNS, Stuttgart [Germany] |
9 | 259 | Markvartice u Děčína [Czech Republic] | Rupelian | Oligocene | NMP, Prague [Czech Republic] |
10 | 114 | Schleenhain [Germany] | Rupelian | Oligocene | MMG, Dresden [Germany] |
11 | 254 | Seifhennersdorf [Germany] | Rupelian | Oligocene | MMG, Dresden [Germany] |
12 | 150 | Klausa [Germany] | Priabonian | Eocene | MMG, Dresden [Germany] |
13 | 2 | Knau [Germany] | Priabonian | Eocene | MMG, Dresden [Germany] |
14 | 1079 | Kučlín [Czech Republic] | Priabonian | Eocene | NMP, Prague [Czech Republic] |
15 | 4 | Peres [Germany] | Priabonian | Eocene | MMG, Dresden [Germany] |
16 | 32 | Staré Sedlo [Czech Republic] | Priabonian | Eocene | NHM, Vienna [Austria] |
17 | 236 | Svatava - Na Pískách [Czech Republic] | Priabonian | Eocene | NMP, Prague [Czech Republic] |
18 | 48 | Profen [Germany] | Baronian | Eocene | MMG, Dresden [Germany] |
19 | 1090 | Geiseltal [Germany] | Lutetian | Eocene | MfN, Berlin [Germany] |
20a | 217 | Sézanne [France] | Thanetian | Paleocene | MNHN, Paris [France] |
20b | 32 | Sézanne [France] | Thanetian | Paleocene | NHM, Vienna [Austria] |
20c | 28 | Sézanne [France] | Thanetian | Paleocene | RBINS, Brussels [Belgium] |
21a | 39 | Gelinden [Belgium] | Selandian | Paleocene | NHM, Vienna [Austria] |
21b | 488 | Gelinden [Belgium] | Selandian | Paleocene | RBINS, Brussels [Belgium] |
22 | 586 | Menat [France] | Selandian | Paleocene | MNHN, Paris [France] |
TABLE 2. List of parameters stored in MORPHYLL. Parameters marked with an asterisk are included in the query mask (partially upon registration). Morphological traits used as defined by Ellis et al. (2009). Parameter without an asterisk can be obtained directly from the curator (see main text).
Meta data | Taxonomic data | Qualitative data | Quantitative data | Geometry data (Shapefiles) |
Specimen accession number* | Taxon (species)* | Leaf margin type* | Lamina area [mm2]* | Lamina outline (polygon) |
Name of institution* | Genus* | Leaf lobation type* | Lamina perimeter [mm] | Petiole length (linestring) |
Name of fossil site* | Family* | Leaf shape type | Lamina length [mm]* | Petiole width (linestring) |
Country of fossil site* | Order* | Leaf size class* | Lamina width [mm]* | Primary veins (multilinestrings) |
Stratigraphic age* | Primary vein architecture type* | Lamina length-to-width ratio [-]* | Secondary veins (multilinestrings) | |
Stratigraphic epoch* | Secondary vein architecture type* | Lamina circularity [-] | Tertiary veins (multilinestrings) | |
Petiole preservation* | Lamina centroid [%] | |||
Area index [-]* | ||||
Petiole length [mm]* | ||||
Petiole width [mm]* | ||||
Leaf mass per area [g/m2] |