Symplocos platycarpa Huegele et Manchester

Plant Fossil Names Registry Number: PFN000577

Act LSID: urn:lsid:plantfossilnames.org:act:577

Authors: I. B. Huegele & S. R. Manchester

Rank: species

Reference: Huegele, I. B. & Manchester, S. R. (2019): Newly recognized diversity of fruits and seeds from the Late Paleogene flora of Trinity County, East Texas, USA. – International Journal of Plant Sciences 180(7): 681–708.

Page of description: 695

Illustrations or figures: 8B1-9

Types

Original diagnosis/description

Endocarp trilocular, ellipsoid, curved at the basal end, 13 mm long, 4.3 mm wide, and ca. 1.6 mm thick, except for base, which bends and thickens to 2 mm. Apical pit rounded, 3.5 mm wide (81% of maximum stone width), enclosing three elliptical pores (fig. 8B5), ca. 1.4mmat their widest diameter. Wall is thin, ca. 0.4mm. Basal pit is circular and 0.4mm in diameter. Surface mainly smooth, save for minor longitudinal wrinkles.

Etymology

Named from Greek adjective platy (flat) and the latinized carpa fromthe Greek noun karpos (fruit) for its flattened endocarp.

Stratigraphy

Paleogene, Eocene
Whitsett Formation

Locality

United Kingdom
Trinity, Texas (USNM loc. 44273)