Description

Durania ehrenbergii

Miocene

Braunkohle Lignite

Adendorf, Rhineland, Germany.

12mm fruit from coal deposit.

Plant.

Durania was originally described as an extinct plant genus based on a fruit fossil from the Oligocene of Germany but one researcher later identified the fruit as belonging to the modern genus Rehderodendron.  It’s unclear if this has become the prevailing view.