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Turneroxylon
Genus Turneroxylon Estrada-Ruiz, Upchurch, E.A. Wheeler, G.H. Mack Int. J. Pl. Sci., 179(2): 141. Jan 2018
- Name
- Turneroxylon
- Rank
- Genus
- Authors (Pub.)
- Estrada-Ruiz E.
Upchurch G. R., Jr.
Wheeler E. A.
Mack G. H.
- Publication
- Late Cretaceous angiosperm woods from the McRae Formation, South-Central New Mexico, USA: Part 2 [2018/1]
- Journal
- International Journal of Plant Sciences
- Volume
- 179
- Issue
- 2
- Page number
- 141
- Year
- 2018
- Parent Taxon
- [Order] Dilleniales
- Fossil Status
- stems (wood)
- Type
- Turneroxylon newmexicoense
- Diagnosis
- Growth rings indistinct, wood diffuse porous; predominantly solitary vessels, rarely in multiples of 2; perforation plates exclusively scalariform. Intervessel pitsmostly opposite, sometimes scalariform; vessel-ray parenchyma pits
mostly with distinct borders, some horizontally elongatewith reduced borders; axial parenchyma apotracheal, diffuse and rarely diffuse in aggregates; nonseptate fibers with distinctly bordered pits, vasicentric tracheids present; rays heterocellular, uniseriate, and multiseriate (14 seriate), tending to 2 distinct sizes.
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