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Symplocos platycarpa
Symplocos platycarpa Huegele, Manchester Int. J. Pl. Sci., 180(7): 695. 29 Jul 2019
- Name
- Symplocos platycarpa
- Rank
- Species
- Generic Name
- [Genus] Symplocos
- Authors (Pub.)
- Huegele I. B.
Manchester S. R.
- Publication
- Newly recognized diversity of fruits and seeds from the Late Paleogene Flora of Trinity County, East Texas, USA [2019/7]
- Journal
- International Journal of Plant Sciences
- Volume
- 180
- Issue
- 7
- Page number
- 695
- Year
- 2019
- Fossil Status
- fruits (endocarps)
- Stratigraphy
- Rupelian
- Strat. comment
- Whitsett Formation
- Location
- Trinity, Texas, USA
- Paleoregion
- America (North)
Data for Holotypus
- Repository
- National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, USA
- Repository Number
- USNM 722032
- Diagnosis
- Endocarp trilocular, ellipsoid, curved at the
basal end, 13 mm long, 4.3 mm wide, and ca. 1.6 mm thick, except
for base, which bends and thickens to 2 mm. Apical pit
rounded, 3.5 mm wide (81% of maximum stone width), enclosing
three elliptical pores (fig. 8B5), ca. 1.4mmat their widest
diameter. Wall is thin, ca. 0.4mm. Basal pit is circular and 0.4mm
in diameter. Surface mainly smooth, save for minor longitudinal
wrinkles.
