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Diploclisia rugulosa

Diploclisia rugulosa M.E. Collinson, Manchester, V. Wilde Abh. Senckenberg. Naturf. Ges., 570: 39. 29 Jun 2012
Name
Diploclisia rugulosa
Rank
Species
Generic Name
[Genus] Diploclisia
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
39
Year
2012
Parent Taxon
[Genus] Diploclisia
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 2069
Diagnosis
Endocarp bisymmetric, dorsiventral length 10.5–12.5 mm, width 8.2–8.5 mm (n = 3), laterally flattened, obliquely obovate in lateral view with broad rounded dorsal surface, with a dorsal crest (“keel”) running around the plane of bisymmetry, base acutely rounded. Smooth central condylar depression asymmetrically elliptic and slightly raised. Central area surrounded by a slightly asymmetric horseshoe-shaped raised ornamented area (lateral crest). One limb of the endocarp slightly longer than the other. Central area lacks obvious foramen, but contains elongate slit in a more or less median position, extending two thirds the length of the endocarp from the base. Lateral crest area ornamented by about 30 conspicuous radiating irregular nodular ridges which sometimes extend across the dorsal crest, but do not protrude out of the profile of the endocarp and do not bear spines.

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