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Trapa sanyingensis
Trapa sanyingensis C. Del Rio, Su in A.T. Aung, C. Del Rio, T.-X. Wang, J. Liu, T. Spicer, Su Rev. Palaeobot. Palynol., 293(104498): 3. 28 Jul 2021
- Name
- Trapa sanyingensis
- Rank
- Species
- Generic Name
- [Genus] Trapa
- Authors (Name)
- Del Rio C.
Su T.
- Authors (Pub.)
- Aung A. T.
Del Rio C.
Wang T.-X.
Liu J.
Spicer T. E. V.
Su T.
- Publication
- Fossil fruits and pollen grains of Trapa from the Upper Pliocene of the Sanying Formation (Yunnan, China) [2021/7]
- Journal
- Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology
- Volume
- 293
- Issue
- 104498
- Page number
- 3
- Year
- 2021
- Fossil Status
- fruits
- Stratigraphy
- Piacenzian
- Strat. comment
- Sanying Formation
- Location
- Yangjie coalmine, Longmen village, Yongping County, western Yunnan Province, P.R. China
- Paleoregion
- Eurasia (China)
Data for Holotypus
- Repository
- Palaeoecological Laboratory, Key Laboratory of Tropical Forest Ecology, Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden, CAS, Mengla, China
- Repository Number
- YP1018
Data for Paratypus
- Repository
- Palaeoecological Laboratory, Key Laboratory of Tropical Forest Ecology, Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden, CAS, Mengla, China
- Repository Number
- YP743 (Plate I, 2), YP744 (Plate I, 6), YP745, YP746 (Plate I, 3), YP747, YP1016 (Plate I, 4; Plate II, 4), YP1017, YP1018, YP1020, YP1022 (Plate I, 5), YP1023, YP1025 (Plate II, 1), YP1027 (Plate II, 2), YP1029, YP1030, YP1033, YP1035, YP1037 (Plate II, 3)
- Diagnosis
- Fruit bearing four horns, length of the fruit about half of the width measured atthe upper horn level, neck cylindrical, protuberant, and wide, with the upper end of the neck below the line joining the bases of the upper horns, apical aperture with a ring of dense hairs, corona lacking; upper horns usually pointing upward,narrowly triangular or broadly triangular in outline, bearing harpoons apically, lower horns well developed and spiny, triangular in outline; two well-developed rounded tubercles present between the upper and lower horns; lower part of the body of the fruit obtriangular in outline, covered by longitudinal ribs.
