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Cocculus lottii
Cocculus lottii M.E. Collinson, Manchester, V. Wilde Abh. Senckenberg. Naturf. Ges., 570: 43. 29 Jun 2012
- Name
- Cocculus lottii
- Rank
- Species
- Generic Name
- [Genus] Cocculus
- 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
- 43
- Year
- 2012
- Parent Taxon
- [Genus] Cocculus
- Fossil Status
- fruits (endocarps)
- 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 8559
- Diagnosis
- Endocarp bisymmetric, dorsiventral length 9.2–9.6 mm, width 9–10.5 mm (n = 4), slightly laterally flattened, almost circular in lateral view with very broadly rounded dorsal surface, no dorsal crest but with a groove in the plane of bisymmetry; base convex to almost straight. Central depression small (up to 2.2 mm in diameter) reniform to subcircular, present on each lateral face but does not penetrate completely (i.e. not forming a foramen). Central condylar area surrounded by an incomplete annular bulged area which covers at least two thirds the distance from the central depression to the periphery. This is surrounded by a narrow, poorly developed groove separating it from a peripheral bulged ridge adjacent to the margin. Both lateral and peripheral bulges ornamented with irregularly arranged radiating fine and coarse rugulae, mostly transversely arranged, sometimes extending into short spines.
