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Abies cuitlahuacii
Abies cuitlahuacii Cev.-Ferriz, Ríos-Santos, Lozano-García Bol. Soc. Geol. Mex., 2019, 71(1): 197. 18 Dec 2018
- Name
- Abies cuitlahuacii
- Rank
- Species
- Generic Name
- [Genus] Abies
- Authors (Pub.)
- Cevallos-Ferriz S. R. S.
Ríos-Santos C.
Lozano-García S.
- Publication
- Abies cuitlahuacii sp. nov., a mummified late Quaternary fossil wood
from Chalco, Mexico [2018/12]
- Journal
- Boletín de la Sociedad Geológica Mexicana
- Annee/Jahrgang
- 2019
- Volume
- 71
- Issue
- 1
- Page number
- 197
- Year
- 2018
- Fossil Status
- stems (wood)
- Stratigraphy
- Pleistocene
- Strat. comment
- ca. 200000 yrs
- Location
- Lake Chalco, Mexico
- Paleoregion
- America (North)
Data for Holotypus
- Repository
- Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Instituto de Geología, México, México
- Repository Number
- IGL-CHA16-B: 1-8
- Diagnosis
- Pycnoxilic wood with distinguishable
growth ring boundaries; tracheid walls with warty
layer, trabecula and uniseriate abietinean bordered pits on radial and tangential walls; bordered
pits occasionally with torus extension; axial parenchyma with brown contents, nodular transverse
end walls, and tangentially zonate arrangement;
uniseriate and partially biseriate rays, 19.5 – 25(37)
cells high, ray parenchyma cells with pitted horizontal walls, nodular end walls, brown contents
and prismatic crystals in their lumens, occasionally irregularly shaped parenchyma cells; taxodioid
cross-fields pits, with 1 – 2 pits per cross-field and
average diameter of 4.6 × 3 µm; resin canals and
ray tracheids absent.
