Carpinus spp.

Niccolini, Gabriele, Martinetto, Edoardo, Lanini, Benedetta, Menichetti, Elena, Fusco, Fabio, Hakobyan, Elen & Bertini, Adele, 2022, Late Messinian Flora From The Post-Evaporitic Deposits Of The Piedmont Basin (Northwest Italy), Fossil Imprint 78 (1), pp. 189-216 : 200

Carpinus spp.

Pl. 2, Fig. 4

M a t e r i a l. Two pollen types have been recognized :

Carpinus orientalis - type and Carpinus betulus - type.

R e m a r k s. Carpinus orientalis - type appears to be present in all four sections while Carpinus betulus - type has been found in small quantities only in the Pollenzo and Ciabòt Cagna sections. A previously reported fruit remain is here revised as an unidentified plant remain (see below). Although Kovar-Eder et al. (2006) reported a fruit of Carpinus cf. miocenica TANAI from Ciabòt Cagna, a new analysis of the single fossil remain (never previously figured, see Pl. 4, Fig. 14) led us to detect only a superficial morphological resemblance to Carpinus miocenica . Furthermore, the peripheral thickening surrounding the outline of the fossil has not been observed in any extant or fossil fruit of Carpinus , nor in any other fruit known to us, thus indicating that this remain represents an unidentified plant part.