Cupressinoxylon kostyniukii

Name

Cupressinoxylon kostyniukii

Rank

Species

Generic Name

[Genus] Cupressinoxylon

Authors (Name)

Dolezych M.  

Authors (Pub.)

Dolezych M. Schneider W.  

Publication

Inkohlte Hölzer und Cuticulae dispersae aus dem 2. Miozänen Flözhorizont im Tagebau Welzow ( Lausitz ) - Taxonomie und vergleichende feinstratigraphisch - fazielle Zuordnung [2006]

Journal

Zeitschrift für geologische Wissenschaften

Volume

34

Issue

3-4

Page number

180

Year

2006

Fossil Status

stems (wood)

Stratigraphy

Miocene

Location

Brown coal open-cast mine at Welzow, Brandenburg, Germany

Paleoregion

Eurasia (Europe)

Data for Holotypus

Repository

Utrecht University, Laboratory of Palaeobotany and Palynology, Utrecht, The Netherlands

Repository Number

Prep. 3516 a/b/c (a’–z’, a’’–z’’´) (=Prep. 120701/179)

Num

Plate IX, Fig 4; figs. 5, 6

Pub.

Inkohlte Hölzer und Cuticulae dispersae aus dem 2. Miozänen Flözhorizont im Tagebau Welzow ( Lausitz ) - Taxonomie und vergleichende feinstratigraphisch - fazielle Zuordnung [2006]

Diagnosis

Coniferous wood with clear annual growth rings, tracheids polygonal and the early wood tracheids much wider than late wood tracheids. Pits in the radial walls of the early wood tracheids in a single or double vertical row, crassulae sometimes present. Wood parenchyma with up to 6 μm thick and pitted horizontal walls. Rays homocellular, mostly uniseriate, but also biseriate, the horizontal walls are smooth and occasionally pitted, the tangential walls are smooth and also up to 5 μm thick and pitted, Indentures are present. Cross-field pits cupressoid and 2 to 3 in one cross field.