Natsiatum wilcoxiana (Berry) Stull, Moore and Manchester, 2011

Blanchard, J, Wang, H & Dilcher, D, 2016, Fruits, seeds and flowers from the Bovay and Bolden clay pits (early Eocene Tallahatta Formation, Claiborne Group), northern Mississippi, USA, Palaeontologia Electronica 19 (3), pp. 1-59 : 25

cf. Natsiatum wilcoxiana (Berry) Stull, Moore and Manchester, 2011

( Figure 21 )

Description. Fragment of an endocarp, ca. 6 mm long, and 3 mm wide, with irregular, blindly ending ridges.

Number of specimens examined. 1. UF15737- 059325.

Remarks. The specimen consists of only a fragment and it cannot be confidently assigned to any of the species described by Stull et al. (2011). They reported three species in three different genera of the Icacinaceae from the Claiborne Group of Tennessee and Mississippi. The blindly ending ridges of the Bovay specimen are suggestive of its possible relationship with the genus Natsiatum .

Figures

FIGURE 21. cf. Natsiatum wilcoxiana (Berry) Stull et al., 2011: 1-2) UF15737-059325, 059325'. Part and counterpart of a specimen showing irregular, blindly ending ridges. Scale bar equals 1 mm.