Carpinus cf. betulus LINNAEUS

Teodoridis, Vasilis, Kvaček, Zlatko, Sami, Marco, Utescher, Torsten & Martinetto, Edoardo, 2015, Palaeoenvironmental Analysis Of The Messinian Macrofossil Floras Of Tossignano And Monte Tondo (Vena Del Gesso Basin, Romagna Apennines, Northern Italy), Acta Musei Nationalis Pragae Series B 71 (3 - 4), pp. 249-292 : 264

Carpinus cf. betulus LINNAEUS

Pl. 10, Fig. 1

Fruit with involucre 3-lobed, 32 mm long and 21 mm wide, base slightly asymmetric, rounded with fragmentary stalk up to 6 mm long, lobes oblong, medial larger than unequal lateral lobes, apices blunt, margin entire, occasionally with obvious isolated acute teeth on apical part of the medial lobe, nutlet ovate, base rounded, apex obtuse 6 mm long and 4 mm wide.

Fruits of the common hornbeam, called also the Carpinus betulus type, show tripartite entire-margined involucres. They are well distributed in the European Neogene (see e.g., Geissert 1987).

M a t e r i a l. Fruit impression (Tossignano MSF607).