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Trapa pannonica
Trapa pannonica Hably Geol. Hung., Ser. Palaeontol., (59): 60. 2013
- Name
- Trapa pannonica
- Rank
- Species
- Generic Name
- [Genus] Trapa
- Authors (Pub.)
- Hably L.
- Publication
- The Late Miocene flora of Hungary [2013]
- Journal
- Geologica Hungarica
- Issue
- 59
- Page number
- 60
- Year
- 2013
- Fossil Status
- fruits
- Stratigraphy
- Tortonian
- Strat. comment
- Pannonian
- Location
- Rózsaszentmárton, the former lignite mine, Hungary
- Paleoregion
- Eurasia (Europe)
Data for Holotypus
- Repository
- Hungarian Natural History Museum, Budapest, Hungary
- Repository Number
- BP 2001.354.1
- Diagnosis
- : Impressions of fruits. Fruits with two massive horns, fruit body symmetrical, height 2.0–3.1 cm including
corona, width with horns 4.7–5.0 cm. Base of fruit body rounded, corona rises from fruit body up to 0.4 cm. Apex of corona
rounded. Ribs start from corona apex, densely spaced, run downwards, but do not reach base. Horns short and wide, poorly
distinguished from fruit body. From level of corona ends shoulders of horns shortly sweep up, then longer descend till ending in an acute apex.
