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Leguminocarpum olmense
Leguminocarpum olmense Cent.-González, Mart.-Cabr., Porras-Múzq., Estrada-Ruiz Commun. Biol., 4(41): 2. 14 Jan 2021
- Name
- Leguminocarpum olmense
- Rank
- Species
- Original spelling
- olmensis
- Generic Name
- [Genus] Leguminocarpum
- Authors (Pub.)
- Centeno-González N. K.
Martínez-Cabrera H. I.
Porras-Múzquiz H.
Estrada-Ruiz E.
- Publication
- Late Campanian fossil of a legume fruit supports Mexico as a center of Fabaceae radiation [2021/1]
- Journal
- Communications Biology
- Volume
- 4
- Issue
- 41
- Page number
- 2
- Year
- 2021
- Fossil Status
- fruits
- Stratigraphy
- Campanian
- Strat. comment
- Olmos Formation
- Location
- Tajo La Florida, near the town of Melchor Múzquiz, Coahuila, Mexico [27° 39′ 32.1″ N, -101° 19′ 10.7″ W]
- Paleoregion
- America (North)
Data for Holotypus
- Repository
- Museo de Múzquiz, Colección de Paleontología, Múzquiz-Melchor, México
- Repository Number
- MUZ-3907
- Diagnosis
- Legume fruit, asymmetric, curved shape; 3–4 times longer than wide; apex rounded, right-angled, bearing a
stylar base; base rounded to tapered, right-angled; short stipe;
compressed; dehiscent along both sutures; without visible
chambers, epicarp glabrous, reticulated veins, with ribs; wingless.
