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Iodes tubulifera
Iodes tubulifera C. Del Rio, R. Thomas, Franceschi Earth & Environm. Sci. Trans. Roy. Soc. Edinburgh, 2017, 108(4): 6 [464]. 24 Sep 2018
- Name
- Iodes tubulifera
- Rank
- Species
- Generic Name
- [Genus] Iodes
- Authors (Pub.)
- Del Rio C.
Thomas R.
De Franceschi D.
- Publication
- Fruits of Icacinaceae Miers from the Palaeocene of the Paris Basin (Oise, France) [2018/9]
- Journal
- Earth and environmental science transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh
- Annee/Jahrgang
- 2017
- Volume
- 108
- Issue
- 4
- Page number
- 6 [464]
- Year
- 2018
- Fossil Status
- fruits (endocarps)
- Stratigraphy
- Thanetian
- Location
- Rivecourt, Oise, France
- Paleoregion
- Eurasia (Europe)
Data for Holotypus
- Repository
- Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle, Paris, France
- Repository Number
- Riv. PPB 141
- Diagnosis
- Endocarp elliptical with a reticulate pattern of sharp and thin ridges, which delimit at least 21 polygonal areoles on each lateral face, with few or no freely ending ridgelets. Endocarp possessing a symmetrical pair of hornlike protrusions prominent (i.e., not compressed) on the keel, positioned eccentrically and subapically. Endocarp wall 0.26 mm thick and 0.38 mm thick with ridges. Inner endocarp surface densely covered with regularly spaced and tubular papillae. Length of endocarp about 10 mm.
