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Cordia eocenica
Cordia eocenica D.W. Woodcock, H.W. Mey., Y. Prado I.A.W.A. J., 38(3): 333. 7 Nov 2017
- Name
- Cordia eocenica
- Rank
- Species
- Generic Name
- [Genus] Cordia
- Authors (Pub.)
- Woodcock D. W.
Meyer H. W.
Prado Y.
- Publication
- The Piedra Chamana fossil woods (Eocene, Peru) [2017/11]
- Journal
- IAWA Journal
- Volume
- 38
- Issue
- 3
- Page number
- 333
- Year
- 2017
- Fossil Status
- stems (wood)
- Stratigraphy
- Bartonian
- Strat. comment
- 39 Mya
- Location
- Piedra Chamana Fossil Forest main site (79°10'W, 6°35' S), near Sexi village, northern Peruvian Andes, Peru
- Paleoregion
- America (North)
Data for Holotypus
- Repository
- Departamento de Paleontología de Invertebrados y Paleobotánica & Mineralogía y Petrología, Museo de Historia Natural, Universidad Mayor Nacional San Marcos, Lima, Peru
- Repository Number
- S156
- Diagnosis
- Wood with distinct growth rings, semi-ring porous. Vessels solitary and
in irregular, often tangential groupings, earlywood tangential diameter 150–200 μm, perforations simple, intervessel pits alternate, vessel-axial parenchyma pits similar to intervessel pits. Fibers non-septate. Parenchyma scanty paratracheal to vasicentric and confluent, also in marginal bands. Rays 3–5-seriate, with procumbent body cells, one row of upright to square cells, and sheath cells, ray height >1 mm. Prismatic crystals in rays.
