Palaeoenvironmental Analysis Of The Messinian Macrofossil Floras Of Tossignano And Monte Tondo (Vena Del Gesso Basin, Romagna Apennines, Northern Italy) Author Teodoridis, Vasilis Charles University in Prague, Faculty of Education, Department of Biology and Environmental Studies, Magdalény Rettigové 4, 116 39 Prague 1, the Czech Republic; e-mail: vasilis. teodoridis @ pedf. cuni. cz Author Kvaček, Zlatko Charles University in Prague, Faculty of Science, Institute of Geology and Palaeontology, Albertov 6, 128 43, Prague 2, the Czech Republic; e-mail: kvacek @ natur. cuni. cz Author Sami, Marco Museo Civico di Scienze Naturali, Via Medaglie d’Oro 51, 480 18 Faenza (RA); Italy; e-mail: marco. sami @ cheapnet. it Author Utescher, Torsten Senckenberg Research Institute, Frankfurt am Main; Steinmann Institute, University of Bonn, Nussallee 8, 531 15 Bonn, Germany; e-mail: utescher @ geo. uni-bonn. de Author Martinetto, Edoardo Dipartimento di Scienze della Terra, Università degli Studi di Torino. Via Valperga Caluso 35, I- 10123 Torino, Italy; e-mail: edoardo. martinetto @ unito. it text Acta Musei Nationalis Pragae Series B 2015 2015-12-31 71 3 - 4 249 292 https://www.mendeley.com/catalogue/24628ce2-d0a9-3b24-8b6c-c42c9e0f0bfd/ journal article 10.14446/AMNP.2015.249 2533-4069 13183696 Carpinus cf. orientalis MILLER Pl. 10, Fig. 2 Incomplete fruit with involucre 3-lobed, 23 mm long and 17 mm wide, base slightly asymmetric, rounded with fragmentary stalk up to 8 mm long, lobes oblong, medial larger than unequal lateral lobes (only one preserved), apices not preserved probably blunt, margin entire, venation actinodromous, primary veins straight, secondaries thinner, straight, opposite, at angles of 80–90°, looping by margin, venation of the higher orders regular polygonal reticulate, areolation well developed, 4-sided, nutlet ovate, base rounded, apex acute and blunt, 6 mm long and 4 mm wide, longitudinal striation on upper surface. The hornbeam involucres, similar to C. orientalis in the asymmetrical shape and one enlarged coarsely dentate side lobe, belong to another typical element of mesic vegetation of the European Cenozoic. It started to occur in the latest Eocene ( Kvaček et al. 2014 , pl. 4Q, R, as C. mediomontana MAI ) and continues in several fossil species ( Mai 1995 ) till the recent. M a t e r i a l. Impression of fruit (Monte Tondo MSF1535).