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Camelliacarpoidea messelensis
Camelliacarpoidea messelensis M.E. Collinson, Manchester, V. Wilde Abh. Senckenberg. Naturf. Ges., 570: 50. 29 Jun 2012
- Name
- Camelliacarpoidea messelensis
- Rank
- Species
- Generic Name
- [Genus] Camelliacarpoidea
- Authors (Pub.)
- Collinson M. E.
Manchester S. R.
Wilde V.
- Publication
- Fossil fruits and seeds of the Middle Eocene Messel biota, Germany [2012/6]
- Journal
- Abhandlungen [herausgegeben von] der Senckenbergischen Naturforschenden Gesellschaft
- Volume
- 570
- Page number
- 50
- Year
- 2012
- Parent Taxon
- [Genus] Camelliacarpoidea
- Fossil Status
- fruits
- 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 8953
- Diagnosis
- Fruit subglobose, fruit body height and width 16.5 mm, as preserved, finely rugulate, apparently leathery, flattened by compression. Apex missing, stylar condition unknown. Fruit containing at least two brittle, cracked, crushed elongate seeds, with a shiny seed coat. Persistent hypogynous calyx with four clearly seen imbricate lobes, (5 or 6 total inferred from symmetry), with greatly thickened circular basal disk, 6 mm diameter, below the lobes, peduncle 1.8 mm thick, 2.9 mm long; calyx lobes 4 mm long (measured from edge of disk), 3.5 mm wide. Calyx and disk with a peculiar strongly verrucate and rough texture. Each calyx lobe with a median adaxial faint keel incomplete/obscured, placentation and morphology unknown. One seed measurable: 4.3 mm long and 3.4 mm wide. Seed with a uniseriate columnar sclerotesta 200 μm thick, with polygonal cell outlines in surface view 20–30 μm in diameter, each polygon with an indistinct central pit. Sclereids thick walled with small lumina, ca. 2–3 μm, decreasing in size outwards (pl. 40i).
