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Prioria elbae
Prioria elbae D.W. Woodcock, H.W. Mey., Y. Prado I.A.W.A. J., 38(3): 15. 7 Nov 2017
- Name
- Prioria elbae
- Rank
- Species
- Original spelling
- elbaiae
- Generic Name
- [Genus] Prioria
- 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
- 15
- 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 (South)
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
- S54C
- Diagnosis
- Wood with distinct growth rings marked by marginal parenchyma, diffuse
porous. Vessels solitary and in radial multiples of 2–3, mean tangential diameter 100–200 μm, vessel density ≤ 5 per mm2, perforations simple; intervessel pits alternate; vessel-ray pits similar to intervessel pits. Fibers septate and non-septate, wide fibers associated with axial parenchyma in an irregular lozenge-aliform to confluent pattern. Axial parenchyma scanty paratracheal to vasicentric and marginal. Rays nonstoried, 1–3-seriate, low uniseriate rays of all upright cells, heterocellular rays with procumbent
body cells and 1(–3–4) rows of upright to square marginal cells. Axial canals
dispersed and often paired tangentially. Prismatic crystals in chambered fibers and axial parenchyma.
