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Acer kenaicum
Description | Acer kenaicum is an extinct maple species in the family Sapindaceae described from a pair of fossil leaves and a samara. The species is known solely from the Oligocene sediments found exposed in central coastal Alaska, US. It is one of several extinct species belonging to the living section Rubra. From Wikipedia article at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acer_kenaicum, which is released under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share-Alike License 3.0. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Taxonomy (GBIF) | Life : Plantae : Tracheophyta : Magnoliopsida : Sapindales : Sapindaceae : Acer : Acer kenaicum | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Taxonomic Status (GBIF) | accepted | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Generic Name | Acer | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Scientific Name | Acer kenaicum Wolfe & Tanai | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Wikipedia | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acer_kenaicum |
Data courtesy of: PBDB: The Paleobiology Database, Creative Commons CC-BY licenced. , GBIF: the Global Biodiversity Information Facility, various licences, iDigBio, various licences, and EOL: The Encyclopedia of Life (Open Data Public Domain). Because fossils are made of minerals too!