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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.