Visnea germanica MENZEL, 1913

Niccolini, Gabriele, Martinetto, Edoardo, Lanini, Benedetta, Menichetti, Elena, Fusco, Fabio, Hakobyan, Elen & Bertini, Adele, 2022, Late Messinian Flora From The Post-Evaporitic Deposits Of The Piedmont Basin (Northwest Italy), Fossil Imprint 78 (1), pp. 189-216 : 201

Visnea germanica MENZEL, 1913

Pl. 5, Figs 15–18

M a t e r i a l. 18 fruits from Ciabòt Cagna.

R e m a r k s. The fossil fruits of Ciabòt Cagna have a very variable aspect due to different states of preservation: some fruits are completely covered by calyx lobes (Pl. 5, Fig. 16), others have only the receptacle preserved, and other fruits seem to be more altered and are covered by a multitude of filaments and may show some remains of the style (Pl. 5, Fig. 17). The same situation was observed in the few European Neogene localities that provided abundant material of this type. Probably, only the observation of some well-preserved specimens allowed Mai (1971) to confirm the assignment of such fossil material to the extant genus Visnea . For strongly compressed specimens, such as those from Ciabòt Cagna, assignment to Visnea can be demonstrated by means of anatomical observations, as shown by Schüssler (2020).