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Ornoxylon mikofalvense
Ornoxylon mikofalvense Süss Feddes Repert., 116(3-4): 159, 162. Aug 2005
- Name
- Ornoxylon mikofalvense
- Rank
- Species
- Original spelling
- mikófalvense
- Generic Name
- [Genus] Ornoxylon
- Authors (Pub.)
- Süss H.
- Publication
- Zwei neue fossile Hölzer der Morphogattung Ornoxylon Felix emend. Süss aus tertiären Schichten von Frankreich und Ungarn [2005/8]
- Journal
- Feddes Repertorium
- Volume
- 116
- Issue
- 3-4
- Page number
- 159, 162
- Year
- 2005
- Fossil Status
- stems (wood)
- Stratigraphy
- Miocene
- Location
- Mikófalva, Bükk Mountain, Hungary
- Paleoregion
- Eurasia (Europe)
Data for Holotypus
- Repository
- Hungarian Natural History Museum, Budapest, Hungary
- Repository Number
- Verkieseltes Holzfossil Mikófalva
Nr. 5983 with 3 slides Nr. 295/163–165
- Diagnosis
- Secondary xylem of the morphogenus Ornoxylon
FELIX emend. SÜSS with a wood structure
of stem, growth zones and ring-porousness indistinct,
vessels mostly solitary, circular, diameter
on an average 275 μm, latewood vessels
arranged in short radial rows or small groups,
length of vessel members on an average of
430 μm, perforations plates simple, intervessel
pits minute and narrow arranged, ground tissues
of the wood libriform fibres, axial parenchyma
paratracheal vasicentrically, in one up to
several rows around the vessels, rays 1–3 cells
wide and 1–15 cells high, middle cells in tangential
view circular.
