Late Messinian Flora From The Post-Evaporitic Deposits Of The Piedmont Basin (Northwest Italy) Niccolini, Gabriele Martinetto, Edoardo Lanini, Benedetta Menichetti, Elena Fusco, Fabio Hakobyan, Elen Bertini, Adele Fossil Imprint 2022 2022-08-26 78 1 189 216 M. SACHSE, 2001 M. SACHSE 2001 [963,1350,1054,1079] Magnoliopsida Oleaceae Oleinites GBIF Plantae Lamiales 13 202 Tracheophyta species liguricus   Text-fig. 3a, Pl. 3, Figs 8, 9 M a t e r i a l. The macrofossil material potentially belonging to Oleaceaeis represented by about twenty leaves from the Ciabòt Cagna locality, stored at the MCEA. R e m a r k s. The leaves occurring at Ciabòt Cagna (the commonest typeat this site) are entire-margined and leathery, with brochidodromous venation. In general, even if we could not study the cuticle (and this is the main reason for using open nomenclature), their venation pattern agrees with that in  Oleinites liguricusdescribed by Sachse (2001)based on more fragmentary specimens, also from post-evaporitic sediments of the PB. The long, unwrinkled petiole preserved in two specimensfrom Ciabòt Cagna is important as a character indicating Oleaceaerather than the very similar Fabaceae; furthermore, there is no evidence that any of these common laminae may represent a leaflet (leaflet petiolules with prominent striations may indicate Fabaceaeor Connaraceae; Dilcher and Lott 2005). Comparable leaves are produced by the extant plants  Chionanthusand  Picconia(AITON) DC., whereas affinity to  Fraxinus,  OsmanthusLOUR.and  Phillyreacan be excluded due to their toothed leaf margin.