Carpolithus warmanensis Wang, Blanchard and Dilcher 2013

Na, Yuling, Blanchard, Jane & Wang, Hongshan, 2019, Fruits, seeds and flowers from the Puryear clay pit (middle Eocene Cockfield Formation), western Tennessee, USA, Palaeontologia Electronica (a 49) 23 (3), pp. 1-57 : 41-43

Carpolithus warmanensis Wang, Blanchard and Dilcher 2013

Figure 57

Description. Fruit suborbiculate, 10 mm long and 5.5 mm wide; seed 6.5 mm long and 4 mm wide. Spines present, ca. 1 mm long.

Number of specimens examined. 2. 15826- 051471, CONN-Q7-01.

Remarks. Wang et al. (2013, p. 52, figure 45; Figure 57.2 ) reported one specimen from the Warman clay pit, Tennessee, which only have impressions of spine bases preserved on the fruit body. The specimen from Puryear shows well-preserved spines on the fruit. The seed is defined by a surrounding zone about 1 mm thick, which may represent the mesocarp of the fruit.

Figures

FIGURE 57. Carpolithus warmanensis Wang, Blanchard and Dilcher, 2013: 1) CONN-Q7-01, suborbiculate fruit with spines. Note a zone ca. 1 mm thick (indicated by arrows) surrounding the seed; 2) 15826-051471, reniform fruit from the Warman clay pit. All scale bars equal 2 mm.