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Carpolithes lunatus
Carpolithes lunatus L.J. Hickey Mem. Geol. Soc. Amer., 150: 153. 19 Jul 1977
- Name
- Carpolithes lunatus
- Rank
- Species
- Generic Name
- [Genus] Carpolithes
- Authors (Pub.)
- Hickey L. J.
- Publication
- Stratigraphy and paleobotany of the Golden Valley Formation (Early Tertiary) of Western North Dakota [1977/7]
- Journal
- Memoirs of the Geological Society of America
- Volume
- 150
- Page number
- 153
- Year
- 1977
- Fossil Status
- seeds
- Stratigraphy
- Thanetian
- Location
- Heart River Bluffs, in bluish clay at brickyard 1.6 km south of Dickinson, Stark County, North Dakota, USA
- Paleoregion
- America (North)
Data for Holotypus
- Repository
- National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, USA
- Repository Number
- USNM 167535
Data for Paratypus
- Repository
- National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, USA
- Repository Number
- USNM 167574, USNM 167575 [pl. 53: 18]
- Diagnosis
- Seeds crescentic, falcate, or obovate in shape, consisting of a nutlet and
a wing; length of seed 5 to 8 mm; nutlet generally 3 mm long, elliptic to ovate in shape, lying at the proximal end of the seed; proximal end of nutlet generally pointed and lying on the concave margin of the seed; distal end rounded and placed near the convex margin.
