Canrightia foveolata E.M.Friis, P.R.Crane, K.R.Pedersen, M.M.Mendes et J.Kvaček

Plant Fossil Names Registry Number: PFN002785

Act LSID: urn:lsid:plantfossilnames.org:act:2785

Authors: E. M. Friis, P. R. Crane, K. R. Pedersen, M. M. Mendes & J. Kvaček

Rank: species

Genus: Canrightia E.M.Friis et K.R.Pedersen

Reference: Friis, E. M., Crane, P. R., Pedersen, K. R., Mendes, M. M. & Kvaček, J. (2022): The Early Cretaceous mesofossil flora of Catefica, Portugal: angiosperms. – Fossil Imprint 78(2): 341–424.

Page of description: 347

Illustrations or figures: text-figs 3a–f, 4a–i

Types

Holotype S174249, Palaeobotanical Collections, Department of Palaeobiology, the Swedish Museum of Natural History, Stockholm, Sweden
Figures: text-fig. 3a–f

Note: Holotype from the Catefica sample 49

Paratypes: S175179, S265998, S266057, S266107 (Catefica sample 49), S266042 (Catefica sample 154), S175178 (Catefica sample 242) (all housed in Palaeobotanical Collections, Department of Palaeobiology, the Swedish Museum of Natural History, Stockholm, Sweden).

Original diagnosis/description

Fruit obovoid with a broad hypanthium and two pendent seeds. Perianth of six tepals. Contact surface between the two seeds flat; external surface rounded. Crystals evenly distributed in the cells of the endotesta. Surface of endotesta foveolate with shallow foveae arranged in more than 30 closely packed longitudinal rows. Fruit wall particularly thick apically over the seeds.

Etymology

From Latin: fovea (pit) referring to the densely pitted surface of the endotesta.

Stratigraphy

Cretaceous, Lower Cretaceous
Almargem Formation, Early Cretaceous (Aptian-early Albian)

Locality

Portugal
Catefica (39° 03ʹ 30ʺ N; 09°14ʹ 30ʺ W), between the villages of Catefica and Mugideira, about 4 km south of Torres Vedras.

Plant fossil remain

macro- and meso-fossils-embryophytes except wood

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