Carpinus aff. orientalis MILL., 1768

Denk, Thomas, Sami, Marco, Teodoridis, Vasilis & Martinetto, Edoardo, 2022, The Late Early Pleistocene Flora Of Oriolo, Faenza (Italy): Assembly Of The Modern Forest Biome, Fossil Imprint 78 (1), pp. 217-262 : 236

Carpinus aff. orientalis MILL., 1768

Text-fig. 10c–g

M a t e r i a l. Oriolo MSF 639, 894, 896, 899, 900, 901,

902, 903, 904, 905, 906, 907, 985, 986.

D e s c r i p t i o n. Leaf, fruit; leaf simple, petiolate, lamina ovate elliptic, 20–36 mm long, 12–21 mm wide, base acute, apex acute rounded, secondary venation craspedodromous, secondary veins densely spaced, regular, 11 pairs, margin serrate, teeth with convex basal and convex, concave or straight apical side; fruit subtended by a flabellate bract, shortly petiolate, 15 mm long, 10 mm wide, lamina obovate-rhombic, asymmetric, venation craspedodromous, margin dentate.

R e m a r k s. Such leaves and fruits are common in Pliocene and Pleistocene plant assemblages across the Mediterranean region. Very similar fruits are known from Bernasso ( France; Leroy and Roiron 1996) and Crespià (northern Spain; Roiron 1983).

Figures

Text-fig. 10. a, b: Carpinus aff. betulus. a: Leaves, Oriolo MSF 640. b: Fruit, Oriolo MSF 985. c–g: Carpinus aff. orientalis. c: Oriolo MSF 895. d: Oriolo MSF 899. e: Oriolo MSF 848. f: Fruit, Oriolo MSF 986. g: Fruit, Oriolo MSF 985. Scale bars 10 mm (a–g).