Capparidoxylon holleisii

Name

Capparidoxylon holleisii

Rank

Species

Generic Name

[Genus] Capparidoxylon

Authors (Pub.)

Selmeier A.  

Publication

Capparidoxylon holleisii nov. spec., a silicified Capparis (Capparaceae) wood with insect coprolites from the Neogene of southern Germany [2005/12]

Journal

Zitteliana

Volume

45

Page number

200

Year

2005

Fossil Status

stems (wood)

Stratigraphy

Burdigalian

Strat. comment

Late Karpatian: 17.0-16.3 M

Location

Attenfeld, Bavaria, Neuburg a. d. Donau, southern Franconian Alb, Germany

Paleoregion

Eurasia (Europe)

Data for Holotypus

Repository

Bayerische Staatssammlung für Paläontologie und Geologie, Munich, Germany

Repository Number

BSPG 2004 XV 1, hand specimens and 7 thin sections; additional cross section (IX 309) and a few cutting fragments of the holotype specimen in the Fossil Wood Collection of the “Historischer Verein und Museum Neuburg”, Germany

Num

text-fig. 3, 4, 5, 6 left; pl. 2: 1-4

Pub.

Capparidoxylon holleisii nov. spec., a silicified Capparis (Capparaceae) wood with insect coprolites from the Neogene of southern Germany [2005/12]

Diagnosis

Growth rings indistinct. Vessels diffuse-porous, medium-sized (50-100 µm), solitary (not more than 10%), radial multiples up to 10, some in clusters, vessels sometimes intergrading with vascular tracheids, perforation simple, vessel element members relatively short, many vessel lumina fi lled with yellow or dark deposits. Fibres non-septate, medium thick-walled. Axial parenchyma scanty, paratracheal, and/or sparsely vasicentric. Rays 1-2-(3)-seriate, faintly heterocellular (KRIBS 1935; type III), sheat cells occasionally occur, 4-26 cells high, 6-12 rays per mm tangential.