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Pterocaryoxylon tuncayi
Pterocaryoxylon tuncayi Akkemik in Akkemik, Akkılıç, Güngör Palaeontographica, Abt. B, Paläophytol., 299(1-6): 144. Sep 2019
- Name
- Pterocaryoxylon tuncayi
- Rank
- Species
- Generic Name
- [Genus] Pterocaryoxylon
- Authors (Name)
- Akkemik Ü.
- Authors (Pub.)
- Akkemik Ü.
Akkılıç H.
Güngör Y.
- Publication
- Fossil wood from the Neogene of the Kilyos coastal area in Istanbul, Turkey [2019/9]
- Journal
- Palaeontographica
- Volume
- 299
- Issue
- 1-6
- Page number
- 144
- Year
- 2019
- Fossil Status
- stems (wood)
- Stratigraphy
- Miocene
- Strat. comment
- Ağaçlı Member of Danişmen Formation
- Location
- Black Sea coast (Kilyos beach), Kilyos, Istanbul, Turkey [41° 15′ 22.36″ N and 28° 57′ 52.30″ E]
- Paleoregion
- Eurasia (Anatolia)
Data for Holotypus
- Repository
- Istanbul Üniversitesi Orman Fakültesi, Department of Forest Botany, Istanbul, Turkey
- Repository Number
- DAL12
Data for Paratypus
- Repository
- Istanbul Üniversitesi Orman Fakültesi, Department of Forest Botany, Istanbul, Turkey
- Repository Number
- DAL11 and KIL04
- Diagnosis
- Growth ring boundaries indistinct or
distinct, wood semi-ring- to diffuse-porous, 5 – 20
cells per mm2, vessel diameters 100 – 200 μm, perforation
plates simple, helical thickenings common in
vessel elements, axial parenchyma diffuse, commonly
in tangential bands up to three cells wide, and scanty
paratracheal. Rays 1– 3-seriate, up to 29 cells in height,
body ray cells procumbent with 1– 4 rows of square or
wider marginal cells; prismatic crystals in chambered
axial parenchyma cells common.
