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Hura chancayensis
Hura chancayensis D.W. Woodcock, H.W. Mey., Y. Prado I.A.W.A. J., 38(3): 340. 7 Nov 2017
- Name
- Hura chancayensis
- Rank
- Species
- Generic Name
- [Genus] Hura
- 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
- 340
- 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
- S178
- Diagnosis
- Wood lacking growth rings, diffuse porous. Vessels solitary and in radial
multiples of 2 to 9, including dumbbell-shaped groups, mean tangential diameter ~100 μm, perforations simple, intervessel pits crowded alternate, ray-vessel pits bordered to enlarged with reduced borders. Fibers non-septate. Axial parenchyma scanty paratracheal and diffuse to diffuse-in-aggregates. Rays uniseriate but occasionally with short biseriate portions, generally of exclusively procumbent cells. Crystals in axial parenchyma.
