Wataria kvacekii E.A.Wheeler et Manchester

Plant Fossil Names Registry Number: PFN002682

Act LSID: urn:lsid:plantfossilnames.org:act:2682

Authors: E. A. Wheeler & S. R. Manchester

Rank: species

Genus: Wataria K.Terada et Mits.Suzuki

Reference: Wheeler, E. A. & Manchester, S. R. (2022): A diverse assemblage of Late Eocene woods from Oregon, western USA. – Fossil Imprint 77(2): 299–329.

Page of description: 316

Illustrations or figures: text-fig. 9a–h

Types

Original diagnosis/description

Wood ring-porous. Earlywood zone with more than 1 row of earlywood vessels. Vessels solitary and in short radial multiples. Perforation plates exclusively simple. Intervessel pits alternate, small; vessel-ray parenchyma pits similar to intervessel pits. Vessel elements and imperforate elements regularly or irregularly storied. Axial parenchyma scanty paratracheal to vasicentric and diffuse-in-aggregates. Rays typically less than 10-seriate; heterocellular; commonly >1 mm high. Tile cells present, Pterospermum-type.

Etymology

Species name to honor Zlatko Kvaček, a kind man, who was and will continue to be an inspiration for those who study Tertiary floras.

Stratigraphy

Paleogene, Eocene
John Day Formation

Locality

United States
UF 279, about 3 km east of Post, Crook County, Oregon