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Bosquesoxylon chiapasense
Bosquesoxylon chiapasense D.K. Pérez-Lara, Castañeda-Posadas, Estrada-Ruiz I.A.W.A. J., 38(4): 545. 6 Dec 2017
- Name
- Bosquesoxylon chiapasense
- Rank
- Species
- Original spelling
- chiapiasense
- Generic Name
- [Genus] Bosquesoxylon
- Authors (Pub.)
- Pérez-Lara D. K.
Castañeda-Posadas C.
Estrada-Ruiz E.
- Publication
- A new genus of Anacardiaceae fossil wood from El Bosque Formation (Eocene), Chiapas, Mexico [2017/12]
- Journal
- IAWA Journal
- Volume
- 38
- Issue
- 4
- Page number
- 545
- Year
- 2017
- Fossil Status
- stems (wood)
- Stratigraphy
- Eocene
- Strat. comment
- El Bosque Formation
- Paleoregion
- America (North)
Data for Holotypus
- Repository
- Colección de Paleontología, Benemérita Universidad Autónoma de Puebla, Puebla, México
- Repository Number
- BUAPALV 1536 A, B and C
- Diagnosis
- Distinct growth ring boundaries marked by radially narrowed latewood
fibers; vessels solitary and in radial multiples of mainly 2 to 3; intervessel pitting alternate;
vessel-ray and vessel parenchyma pits with reduced borders, horizontally elongated
to round; non-septate and septate fibers, 1–2 septa per fiber; axial parenchyma mostly
scanty paratracheal, also apotracheal diffuse, vasicentric; heterocellular rays, Kribs
type IIA, ray body composed entirely of procumbent cells, and usually one marginal
row of erect or square cells; radial canals in some multiseriate rays.
