Back
Gleditsioxylon paramorphoides
Gleditsioxylon paramorphoides M.J. Franco, Brea Ameghiniana, 50(2): 180. 1 Apr 2013
- Name
- Gleditsioxylon paramorphoides
- Rank
- Species
- Generic Name
- [Genus] Gleditsioxylon
- Authors (Pub.)
- Franco M. J.
Brea M.
- Publication
- Leños fósiles de Leguminosas de la Formación Ituzaingó, Entre Ríos, Argentina: implicancias paleoecológicas y paleobiogeográficas [2013/4]
- Journal
- Ameghiniana
- Volume
- 50
- Issue
- 2
- Page number
- 180
- Year
- 2013
- Fossil Status
- stems (wood)
- Stratigraphy
- Pliocene
- Strat. comment
- Ituzaingó Formation
- Location
- Toma Vieja, Paraná, Entre Ríos, Argentina
- Paleoregion
- America (South)
Data for Holotypus
- Repository
- CICyTTP-CONICET, Colección Paleobotánica, Diamante, Entre Ríos, Argentina
- Repository Number
- CIDPALBO 48, CIDPALBOmic 698 (3 preparations)
- Diagnosis
- Growth rings boundaries distinct; semi ring porosity;
vessels circular in outline, mostly solitary, also radials
multiples and in clusters, moderate size and very short; simple
perforation plates; alternate and rounded intervessel pits; vesselray
pits similar to intervessel pits; fibers with thick-walled and
irregularly arranged; rays commonly 4–10 seriate, also uni-,
bi- and triseriate, homocellular, consisting of procumbent cells;
axial parenchyma paratracheal, vasicentric, aliform, confluent
and banded; also marginal and parenchyma strand with prismatic
crystal in chambered axial parenchyma cells.
