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Cryptocaryoxylon lemnium
Cryptocaryoxylon lemnium Mantz. Foss. Impr., 74(1-2): 32. 31 Aug 2018
- Name
- Cryptocaryoxylon lemnium
- Rank
- Species
- Generic Name
- [Genus] Cryptocaryoxylon
- Authors (Pub.)
- Mantzouka D.
- Publication
- The first report of Cryptocaryoxylon from the Neogene (early Miocene) of Eurasia (Eastern Mediterranean: Lesbos and Lemnos Islands, Greece) [2018/8]
- Journal
- Fossil Imprint
- Volume
- 74
- Issue
- 1-2
- Page number
- 32
- Year
- 2018
- Fossil Status
- stems (wood)
- Stratigraphy
- Miocene
- Location
- Heteroxylous wood, growth rings present, semi-ring/diffuse porosity, numerous vessels per sq. mm; vessels generally in radial multiples of 2 to 3, also single and in clusters, circular to oval in outline, tyloses present; exclusively simple perforation plates; alternate intervessel pits, polygonal;
non-septate fibres; paratracheal axial parenchyma, vasicentric to aliform and banded parenchyma with up to 3-cell wide rows and seemingly marginal bands; numerous rays, exclusively heterocellular, short to medium sized; mostly biseriate and triseriate, but up to a width of 5 cells; no aggregate rays present; idioblasts numerous, associated with ray parenchyma cells and among the fibres; silica bodies (crystalliferous elements / aggregate grains) inside rays’ idioblasts.
- Paleoregion
- Eurasia (Europe)
Data for Holotypus
- Repository
- Athens University, Athens, Greece
- Repository Number
- DMLHM11
