Cabomba pitonii is an extinct species of aquatic plant in the family Cabombaceae known from Menat, Puy-de-Dôme, France.
Description The species had submerged leaves.Piton, L. E. (1940). Paléontologie Du Gisement Éocène de Menat: (Puy-de-Dôme) (flore Et Faune). p. 44. Frankreich: Imprimeries P. Vallier.
Taxonomy The species was described by and in 1940. The original spelling was Cabomba pitoni. The type specimen was collected in Menat, Puy-de-Dôme, France.Cabomba pitonii L. Laurent, Marty in L. Piton. (n.d.). The International Fossil Plant Names Index (IFPNI). Retrieved February 18, 2025, from https://ifpni.org/species.htm?id=30D7B8D6-3F0D-C3C7-9E11-A5448E2A3995 It has been dated either to the Eocene,Concepción Alvarez Ramis & Teresa Fernandez Marron (1981) Considérations sur le rôle des phanérogames aquatiques du cénozoïque dans la détermination de l'âge de leurs gisements. pp. 85–97. Comptes rendus du 106e congrès national des sociétés savantes perpignan 1981, section des sciences: paléontologie or to the Paleocene (Selandian).
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