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Saportaspermum kovacsiae
Saportaspermum kovacsiae Z. Kvaček, V. Wilde Bull. Geosci., 85(1): 172. 31 Mar 2010
- Name
- Saportaspermum kovacsiae
- Rank
- Species
- Generic Name
- [Genus] Saportaspermum
- Authors (Pub.)
- Kvaček Z.
Wilde V.
- Publication
- Foliage and seeds of malvalean plants from the Eocene of Europe [2010/3]
- Journal
- Bulletin of Geosciences
- Volume
- 85
- Issue
- 1
- Page number
- 172
- Year
- 2010
- Fossil Status
- seeds
- Stratigraphy
- Lutetian
- Location
- Messel, Landkreis Darmstadt-Dieburg, Hesse, Germany
- Paleoregion
- Eurasia (Europe)
Data for Holotypus
- Repository
- Senckenberg Naturhistorische Sammlungen Frankfurt, Senckenberg Forschungsinstitut und Naturmuseum, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
- Repository Number
- SM.B Me 5587
- Diagnosis
- Seeds winged, with an elliptical to sub-orbicular seed body, strengthened at the base and somewhat pointed at the opposite end, with a single narrow elongate membranaceous wing; surface of the seed body with more or less visible striation from alignment of surface cells. Seed body orientated obliquely to the long axis of the wing (30–40°); one of the lateral margins straight, the other slightly convex, distal end of wing rounded; venation-like structure on the straight margin.
