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Iodes passicensis
Iodes passicensis C. Del Rio, Franceschi Geodiversitas, 42(2): 19. 6 Feb 2020
- Name
- Iodes passicensis
- Rank
- Species
- Original spelling
- passiciensis
- Generic Name
- [Genus] Iodes
- Authors (Pub.)
- Del Rio C.
De Franceschi D.
- Publication
- Icacinaceae fossil fruits from three sites of the Paris Basin (early Eocene, France): local diversity and global biogeographic implications [2020/2]
- Journal
- Geodiversitas
- Volume
- 42
- Issue
- 2
- Page number
- 19
- Year
- 2020
- Fossil Status
- fruits (endocarps)
- Stratigraphy
- Ypresian
- Location
- Passy, area of Paris, France
- Paleoregion
- Eurasia (Europe)
Data for Holotypus
- Repository
- Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle, Paris, France
- Repository Number
- MNHN.F.44736
Data for Paratypus
- Repository
- Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle, Paris, France
- Repository Number
- MNHN.F.44739
- Diagnosis
- Endocarp bilaterally symmetrical, unilocular, elliptical, lenticular in transverse section; outer surface of the endocarp with a reticulate pattern of rounded and thin ridges with a channel on the median apical part, enclosing 25-29 polygonal areoles per face, with few or no free-ending ridgelets; a keel surrounds the fruit in the plane of symmetry with the thicker side containing a vascular bundle embedded in the endocarp wall. Endocarp possesses a small pair of pores. Inner endocarp surface densely covered with regularly spaced and sessile rounded papillae. Endocarp length c. 7 mm, width c. 4.4 mm.
