Populoxylon sebenense Akkemik

Plant Fossil Names Registry Number: PFN002214

Act LSID: urn:lsid:plantfossilnames.org:act:2214

Author: Ü. Akkemik

Rank: species

Reference: Akkemik, Ü. (2021): A re-examination of the angiosperm wood record from the early and middle Miocene of Turkey, and new species descriptions. – Acta Palaeobotanica 61(1): 42–94.

Page of description: 73

Illustrations or figures: pl. 15

Types

Original diagnosis/description

Growth ring boundaries distinct, with 1 (–2) rows of flattened axial parenchyma cells. Wood diffuse-porous, vessels mostly in short radial multiples of 2–4 (–6) cells, and solitary. Solitary vessels circular in general, vessel cells in radial multiples, tangentially flattened, some vessel cells triangular at tips of radial multiples. Mean vessel tangential diameter 50–100 μm, vessel frequency 40–100 per mm2 (Pl. 15A, B). Axial parenchyma diffuse, in 1 (–2) rows of marginal bands (Pl. 15B, C). Rays exclusively uniseriate, 5–20 (–35) cells high. 4–12 rays per mm (Pl. 15D, E); 2–4 cells per parenchyma strand (Pl. 15E). Perforation plates simple (Pl. 15F). Vessel-ray pits simple, large, slightly honeycomb-like (Pl. 15G). Vascular and vasicentric tracheids absent, septate fibres present, axial parenchyma common (Pl. 15H). Rays homocellular; all ray cells procumbent (Pl. 15I).


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Etymology

The epithet “sebenense” refers to the city of Seben, the type locality of the new fossil species.

Stratigraphy

Neogene, Miocene
Hançili Formation, early Miocene

Locality

Turkey
Fossil site in Hoçaş village, Seben city, Bolu