FIGURE 15. Claiborne Fagaceae Fruit Type 3 in Fruits, seeds and flowers from the Bovay and Bolden clay pits (early Eocene Tallahatta Formation, Claiborne Group), northern Mississippi, USA

FIGURE 15. Claiborne Fagaceae Fruit Type 3 (1-3): 1) UF 15815-005347', Lamkin clay pit, Kentucky. Fruit showing two nutlets (n) and spiny cupule valve (c) with a web-like pattern. Scale bar equals 2 mm; 2) UF 15815-005347, Lamkin clay pit, Kentucky. Counterpart of Figure 15.1 showing a short peduncle (p). Note the overlap of spiny cupule valves (c). Scale bar equals 2 mm. 3) UF 15826-051307, Warman clay pit, Tennessee. Fruit showing spiny cupule valve (c) and short peduncle (p). Scale bar equals 2 mm. Catahoulea grahamii DeVore, Pigg, Dilcher and Freile, 2014: 4) UF 15841-062191, Huntsville, Texas. Fruit showing spiny cupule valve (c) and long peduncle (p). Scale bar equals 2 mm. Claiborne Fagaceae Fruit Type 5 (5) UF15826-29216, Warman clay pit, Tennessee. Specimen showing peduncle (p) and two overlapping spiny cupule valves (c). Scale bar equals 2 mm.