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Cupressinoxylon zamunerae
Cupressinoxylon zamunerae Bodnar, D.P. Ruiz, Artabe, E.M. Morel, Ganuza Rev. Brasil. Paleontol., 18(1): 148. 10 May 2015
- Name
- Cupressinoxylon zamunerae
- Rank
- Species
- Generic Name
- [Genus] Cupressinoxylon
- Authors (Pub.)
- Bodnar J.
Ruiz D. P.
Artabe A. E.
Morel E. M.
Ganuza D.
- Publication
- Voltziales y Pinales (= Coniferales) de la Formación Cortaderita (Triásico Medio), Argentina, y su implicancia en la reconstrucción de las coníferas triásicas [2015/5]
- Journal
- Revista brasileira de paleontologia
- Volume
- 18
- Issue
- 1
- Page number
- 148
- Year
- 2015
- Parent Taxon
- [Genus] Cupressinoxylon
- Fossil Status
- wood (stems)
- Stratigraphy
- Middle Triassic
- Strat. comment
- Formación Cortaderita
- Location
- Quebrada de la Tinta, área de Barreal, Cuenca de Barreal Calingasta, San Juan, Argentina
- Paleoregion
- America (South)
Data for Holotypus
- Repository
- Museo de Ciencias Naturales de San Juan, Colección Paleobotánica, San Juan, Argentina
- Repository Number
- PBSJ 828/ PBSJPm 828
- Diagnosis
- Pycnoxylic homoxylic secondary wood with distinct growth rings of variable width (19 to 57 cells). Abrupt transition from earlywood to latewood; latewood 1 to 3 cells wide. Tracheid pits in radial walls bordered, circular and spaced, predominantly uniseriate, with circular pore and conspicuous torus. Axial parenchyma scarce and diffuse. Cross-fi elds with 1-2 oculipores of cupressoid type, in one row. Heterocellular, mainly uniseriate, and 4-33 cells high rays. Ray cells with pitted horizontal walls, and thickened and indented end walls.
