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Paraalbizioxylon caccavariae
Paraalbizioxylon caccavariae L.C.A. Martínez Rev. Palaeobot. Palynol., 2013, 201(10.1016/j.revpalbo.2013.10.001): 3. 24 Oct 2013
- Name
- Paraalbizioxylon caccavariae
- Rank
- Species
- Generic Name
- [Genus] Paraalbizioxylon
- Authors (Pub.)
- Martínez L. C. A.
- Publication
- Fossil legume woods from the Late Miocene, Chiquimil Formation (Santa María Basin), Argentina [2013/10]
- Journal
- Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology
- Annee/Jahrgang
- 2013
- Volume
- 201
- Issue
- 10.1016/j.revpalbo.2013.10.001
- Page number
- 3
- Year
- 2013
- Fossil Status
- stems (wood)
- Stratigraphy
- Miocene
- Strat. comment
- Chiquimil Formation
- Location
- Puerta del Corral Quemado, Belén Department, Catamarca Province, Argentina [Paratype localities: CTES-PB 12360, Tiopunco, Tucumán province,
Argentina. CTES-PB 14137 and BAPb-9285, Río Agua Verde, Catamarca
province, Argentina]
- Paleoregion
- America (South)
Data for Holotypus
- Repository
- Universidad Nacional del Nordeste, Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y Naturales y Agrimensura, Chaco, Corrientes, Argentina
- Repository Number
- CTES-PB 12363, CTES-PMP 3434, CTES-PMP 3435 and CTESPMP
3436. All slides (CTES-PMP 3434, 3435 and 3436)
were made from a single specimen (CTES-PB 12363).
Data for Paratypus
- Repository
- Universidad Nacional del Nordeste, Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y Naturales y Agrimensura, Chaco, Corrientes, Argentina
- Repository Number
- CTES-PB 12360, CTES-PMP 3437, CTES-PMP 3438, CTES-PMP 3439. CTES-PB 14137, CTES-PMP 3440, CTES-PMP 3441
and CTES-PMP 3442; BAPb 9285, BAPb-Pm 644, BAPb-Pm 645, BAPb-Pm 646 and BAPb-Pm 647 = Museo Argentino de Ciencias Naturales “Bernardino Rivadavia”, Buenos Aires, Argentina (BAPb)
- Diagnosis
- Secondary wood.Wood semi-ring to diffuse-porous. Vessels
circular to oval in outline; solitary and in radial multiples. Vessel
elements short. Perforation plates simple. Intervessel pits small, oval
to circular, alternate and vestured. Rays: homogeneous, procumbent
cells, uni- to triseriate, Kribs Homogeneous type II. Axial parenchyma
paratracheal scanty to vasicentric. Apotracheal parenchyma diffuse,
with prismatic crystals in chambered cells and with a single rhomboid
crystal per chamber. Fibres non-septate, with simple pits and
thick-walled.