Carpinus cf. orientalis MILLER

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. orientalis MILLER

Pl. 10, Fig. 2

Incomplete fruit with involucre 3-lobed, 23 mm long and 17 mm wide, base slightly asymmetric, rounded with fragmentary stalk up to 8 mm long, lobes oblong, medial larger than unequal lateral lobes (only one preserved), apices not preserved probably blunt, margin entire, venation actinodromous, primary veins straight, secondaries thinner, straight, opposite, at angles of 80–90°, looping by margin, venation of the higher orders regular polygonal reticulate, areolation well developed, 4-sided, nutlet ovate, base rounded, apex acute and blunt, 6 mm long and 4 mm wide, longitudinal striation on upper surface.

The hornbeam involucres, similar to C. orientalis in the asymmetrical shape and one enlarged coarsely dentate side lobe, belong to another typical element of mesic vegetation of the European Cenozoic. It started to occur in the latest Eocene ( Kvaček et al. 2014, pl. 4Q, R, as C. mediomontana MAI ) and continues in several fossil species ( Mai 1995) till the recent.

M a t e r i a l. Impression of fruit (Monte Tondo

MSF1535).