Craigia W.W. SMITH et W.E. EVANS

Craigia W.W. SMITH et W.E. EVANS View in CoL Craigia bronnii ( UNGER) KVAČEK, BŮŽEK et MANCHESTER

Pl. 19, Fig. 1–2

1845 Ulmus bronnii UNGER , p. 79, pro parte, pl. 25, fig. 2–4 (non fig. 1).

1948 Pteleaecarpum bronnii ( UNGER) WEYLAND , p. 130, pl. 21, fig. 5, text-fig. 5–9.

1961 Pteleaecarpum bronnii ( UNGER) WEYLAND ; Knobloch, p. 280, pl. 6, fig. 11, pl. 13, fig. 12.

1991 Craigia bronnii ( UNGER) KVAČEK, BŮŽEK et MANCHESTER , p. 522.

Winged broadly oval to rounded fruit valves 10–12 mm wide and 12–17 mm long with spindle-shaped medial locule, rarely with a small ovate seed inside. Venation of the wing composed of narrow elongated fields radiating from the locule, steeper in the upper part.

D i s c u s s i o n. These fruit remains agree in size and morphology with other records of the same species, commonly recovered from the Oligocene and Miocene of Central Europe (Kvaček et al. 2005).

M a t e r i a l s t u d i e d: Detached fruit valves, EK

374–376.