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Schenkiella
Genus Schenkiella Wójcicki, Z. Kvaček Acta Palaeobot., 42(2): 111. 23 Dec 2002
- Name
- Schenkiella
- Rank
- Genus
- Replaced Name
- [Genus] Tricorniger
- Authors (Pub.)
- Wójcicki J. J.
Kvaček Z.
- Publication
- Schenkiella genus novum, thorny disseminules of unknown affinities from the Lower Miocene of central Europe [2002/12]
- Journal
- Acta Palaeobotanica
- Volume
- 42
- Issue
- 2
- Page number
- 111
- Year
- 2002
- Parent Taxon
- [Class] Magnoliopsida
- Fossil Status
- fruits
- Type
- Schenkiella credneri
- Diagnosis
- Fruit obtrullate in outline, 10– 15 mm long from the base to the apex and 8–14 mm broad along horns (measured on compression/impression), three-plane symmetrical, with three equal stout short divergent horns thickened on edges and sharpened to a point, inserted in ca. 2/3 from the fruit base and passing towards the fruit base into three protruding longitudinal ribs; fruit body between the ribs slightly depressed; apical aperture closed with conical to shallowly conical cap-like structure; endocarp covered by probably leathery covering; surface of endocarp characteristically finely alveolate (secondarily porous); fruit base acute, sometimes slightly truncate, probably with a very small scar.
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