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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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