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Cornerocarpon
Genus Cornerocarpon Grote in H.-S. Wang, Jane Blanch., Dilcher Palaeont. Electr., 16(3, 31A): 30. Dec 2013
- Name
- Cornerocarpon
- Rank
- Genus
- Authors (Name)
- Grote P. J.
- Authors (Pub.)
- Wang H.-S.
Blanchard J.
Dilcher D. L.
- Publication
- Fruits, seeds, and flowers from the Warman clay pit (middle Eocene Claiborne Group), western Tennessee, USA [2013/12]
- Journal
- Palaeontologia Electronica
- Volume
- 16
- Issue
- 3, 31A
- Page number
- 30
- Year
- 2013
- Parent Taxon
- [Family] Moraceae
- Fossil Status
- fruits
- Type
- Cornerocarpon copiosum
- Diagnosis
- Compound fruit (syncarp)
consisting of a receptacle in which three to six fruitlets
are embedded. Fruit obconic with an obliquely
truncated upper part bearing fruitlets and a lower
part bearing “tepals”; each fruitlet with a peripheral
whorl of five bracts. Peduncle slender.
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