Ornoxylon grandiporosum

Name

Ornoxylon grandiporosum

Rank

Species

Generic Name

[Genus] Ornoxylon

Authors (Pub.)

Süss H.  

Publication

Zwei neue fossile Hölzer der Morphogattung Ornoxylon Felix emend. Süss aus tertiären Schichten von Frankreich und Ungarn [2005/8]

Journal

Feddes Repertorium

Volume

116

Issue

3-4

Page number

154, 158

Year

2005

Fossil Status

stems (wood)

Stratigraphy

Miocene

Location

Pontlevoy, Loir-et-Cher, France

Paleoregion

Eurasia (Europe)

Data for Holotypus

Repository

Museum für Naturkunde, Berlin, Germany

Repository Number

Verkieseltes Holzfossil Pontlevoy Nr. MB Pb 2004/1188 with 4 slides

Num

text-fig. 1–3, Taf. I, Fig. 1–4, Taf. II, Fig. 1–5

Pub.

Zwei neue fossile Hölzer der Morphogattung Ornoxylon Felix emend. Süss aus tertiären Schichten von Frankreich und Ungarn [2005/8]

Diagnosis

Secondary xylem of the morphogenus Ornoxylon FELIX emend. SÜSS with a wood structure of the stem, growth zones distinct, ring-porous, pore ring 3-seriate, vessels arranged mostly solitary and in radial pairs, radial diameter on an average of 400 μm, with radial oval outlines, latewood vessels small, arranged sparsely solitary and in radial multiples up to six, length of vessel members on an average 345 μm, perforation plates simple, intervessel pits minute and narrow arranged, ground tissue of the wood libriform fibres, axial parenchyma paratracheal vasicentrically, in one up to two rows around the vessels, rays 1–4 cells wide, up to 27 cells high, mostly 2–15 cells high, mostly slight heterogenous, middle cells circular in tangential view.