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Mimosoxylon ceratonioides
Mimosoxylon ceratonioides Akkemik in Akkemik, Akkılıç, Güngör Palaeontographica, Abt. B, Paläophytol., 299(1-6): 138. Sep 2019
- Name
- Mimosoxylon ceratonioides
- Rank
- Species
- Generic Name
- [Genus] Mimosoxylon
- Authors (Name)
- Akkemik Ü.
- Authors (Pub.)
- Akkemik Ü.
Akkılıç H.
Güngör Y.
- Publication
- Fossil wood from the Neogene of the Kilyos coastal area in Istanbul, Turkey [2019/9]
- Journal
- Palaeontographica
- Volume
- 299
- Issue
- 1-6
- Page number
- 138
- Year
- 2019
- Fossil Status
- stems (wood)
- Stratigraphy
- Miocene
- Strat. comment
- Ağaçlı Member of Danişmen Formation
- Location
- Black Sea coast (Kilyos beach), Kilyos, Istanbul, Turkey [41° 15′ 22.36″ N and
28° 57′ 52.30″ E]
- Paleoregion
- Eurasia (Anatolia)
Data for Holotypus
- Repository
- Istanbul Üniversitesi Orman Fakültesi, Department of Forest Botany, Istanbul, Turkey
- Repository Number
- Specimen KIL07
- Diagnosis
- Angiosperm wood, growth ring boundary
indistinct, sometimes fairly visible, wood diffuse-porous,
vessels solitary or 2 – 3 in radial multiples, tangential diameter of vessel lumina 100 – 200 μm, vessel
frequency 5 – 20 per mm2 and perforation plate simple,
axial parenchyma very common, paratracheal vasicentric,
aliform and confluent, broad rays 4 –10-seriate
(mostly 4 – 5-seriate), radially the body ray cells
procumbent, marginally 1 to 4 rows of upright and/
or square cells, prismatic crystals present in squared
marginal ray cells.
