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Sorindeioxylon gorongosense
Sorindeioxylon gorongosense M.K. Bamford, M. Pickford Foss. Impr., 77(1): 203. 9 Dec 2021
- Name
- Sorindeioxylon gorongosense
- Rank
- Species
- Generic Name
- [Genus] Sorindeioxylon
- Authors (Pub.)
- Bamford M. K.
Pickford M.
- Publication
- Stratigraphy, chronology and palaeontology of the Tertiary rocks of the Cheringoma Plateau, Mozambique [2021/12]
- Journal
- Fossil Imprint
- Volume
- 77
- Issue
- 1
- Page number
- 203
- Year
- 2021
- Fossil Status
- stems (wood)
- Stratigraphy
- Priabonian
- Strat. comment
- Mazamba Formation
- Location
- Muaredzi Site 5 (18°56′02.0″S, 34°36′50.6″E), Cheringoma Plateau, Mozambique
- Paleoregion
- Africa (South)
Data for Holotypus
- Repository
- Palaeobotany Herbarium, Evolutionary Studies Institute, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa
- Repository Number
- BP/16/1738: three slides and the remaining piece of wood
- Diagnosis
- Diffuse porous dicotyledonous wood
with indistinct to absent growth rings. Vessels round, solitary
or in pairs, tangential diameter 50–100 μm and less than 5
vessels per square mm. Perforation plates are simple. Intervessel
and vessel-ray pits are the same, alternately arranged
and 6–8 μm in diameter. Apotracheal parenchyma in narrow
terminal or initial bands. Paratracheal parenchyma is
vasicentric to rarely aliform. Rays are low, uni- to triseriate
with the uniseriate sections as wide as the triseriate sections,
heterocellular with mixed procumbent, square and upright
cells. Prismatic crystals occur in the upright and square ray
cells.
