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Caldcluvioxylon torresiae
Caldcluvioxylon torresiae Pujana, D.P. Ruiz I.A.W.A. J., 40(3): 17 [613]. 1 Aug 2019
- Name
- Caldcluvioxylon torresiae
- Rank
- Species
- Generic Name
- [Genus] Caldcluvioxylon
- Authors (Pub.)
- Pujana R. R.
Ruiz D. P.
- Publication
- Fossil woods from the Eocene–Oligocene (Río Turbio Formation) of southwestern Patagonia (Santa Cruz province, Argentina) [2019/8]
- Journal
- IAWA Journal
- Volume
- 40
- Issue
- 3
- Page number
- 17 [613]
- Year
- 2019
- Fossil Status
- stems (wood)
- Stratigraphy
- Eocene
- Strat. comment
- Lower member of the Río Turbio Formation
- Location
- Río Turbio, Santa Cruz, Argentina [51° 32' 31" S, 72° 19' 38" W]
- Paleoregion
- America (South)
Data for Holotypus
- Repository
- Museo Regional Provincial Padre Manuel Jesús Molina, Santa Cruz, Argentina
- Repository Number
- MPM PB 2236
- Diagnosis
- Growth ring boundaries indistinct to absent. Diffuse porous. Vessels exclusively solitary.
Perforation plates exclusively scalariform, usually with fewer than 20 bars. Vesselray
parenchyma pits scalariform with reduced borders. Fibers with distinctly bordered
pits in tangential and radial walls. Rays uni- to locally biseriate, heterocellular composed
of procumbent cells in biseriate portions and upright cells in the uniseriate extensions
of biseriate rays, uniseriate rays composed of upright cells. Axial parenchyma scarce
to absent.
