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Cucurbites scrobiculatus
Cucurbites scrobiculatus E.W. Berry Profess. Pap. U.S. Geol. Surv., 193(E): 90. Apr 1941
- Name
- Cucurbites scrobiculatus
- Rank
- Species
- Generic Name
- [Genus] Cucurbites
- Authors (Pub.)
- Berry E. W.
- Publication
- Additions to the Wilcox flora from Kentucky and Texas [1941/4]
- Journal
- Professional Papers / United States Geological Survey
- Volume
- 193
- Issue
- E
- Page number
- 90
- Year
- 1941
- Fossil Status
- seeds
- Stratigraphy
- Eocene
- Location
- Near Lytle, Atascosa County, Texas, USA
- Paleoregion
- America (North)
Data for Not defined
- Repository
- National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, USA
- Repository Number
- ?
- Diagnosis
- Seeds relatively large, compressed lenticular, obovate in profile, asymmetrically rounded distad, truncated proximad, with a slight smooth border about 0.5 mm in diameter widening toward the hilum. Surface
prominently ornamented by irregularly rounded pits about a millimeter in diameter. Length, 2.1 cm; maximum width, 1.3 cm; maximum thickness, about 3.5 mm. Texture coriaceous.
