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Cariniana valverdei
Cariniana valverdei D.W. Woodcock, H.W. Mey., Y. Prado I.A.W.A. J., 38(3): 351. 7 Nov 2017
- Name
- Cariniana valverdei
- Rank
- Species
- Generic Name
- [Genus] Cariniana
- 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
- 351
- 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
- S174
- Diagnosis
- Wood with indistinct growth rings, diffuse porous. Vessels solitary, in
short radial multiples, and irregularly grouped, mean tangential diameter 100–200 μm, with tyloses; perforations simple; intervessel pits crowded alternate; ray-vessel pits both bordered and enlarged with reduced borders. Fibers non-septate. Parenchyma scanty paratracheal and in narrow apotracheal bands. Rays non-storied, 1–4-seriate, composed of all procumbent cells or with squarish cells at the margins. Crystals in
axial parenchyma; silica bodies in rays and axial parenchyma.
