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Cucurbites scrobiculatus

Cucurbites scrobiculatus E.W. Berry Profess. Pap. U.S. Geol. Surv., 193(E): 90. Apr 1941
Name
Cucurbites scrobiculatus
Rank
Species
Generic Name
[Genus] Cucurbites
Authors (Pub.)
Berry E. W.  
Publication
Additions to the Wilcox flora from Kentucky and Texas [1941/4]
Journal
Professional Papers / United States Geological Survey
Volume
193
Issue
E
Page number
90
Year
1941
Fossil Status
seeds
Stratigraphy
Eocene
Location
Near Lytle, Atascosa County, Texas, USA
Paleoregion
America (North)
Data for Not defined
Repository
National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, USA
Repository Number
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Diagnosis
Seeds relatively large, compressed lenticular, obovate in profile, asymmetrically rounded distad, truncated proximad, with a slight smooth border about 0.5 mm in diameter widening toward the hilum. Surface prominently ornamented by irregularly rounded pits about a millimeter in diameter. Length, 2.1 cm; maximum width, 1.3 cm; maximum thickness, about 3.5 mm. Texture coriaceous.

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