Sorindeioxylon gorongosense M.K.Bamford et M.Pickford

Plant Fossil Names Registry Number: PFN002686

Act LSID: urn:lsid:plantfossilnames.org:act:2686

Authors: M. K. Bamford & M. Pickford

Rank: species

Genus: Sorindeioxylon M.K.Bamford et M.Pickford

Reference: Bamford, M. K. & Pickford, M. (2021): Stratigraphy, chronology and palaeontology of the Tertiary rocks of the Cheringoma Plateau, Mozambique. – Fossil Imprint 77(1): 187–213.

Page of description: 203

Illustrations or figures: text-fig. 15

Name is type for

Types

Original diagnosis/description

Diffuse porous dicotyledonous wood with indistinct to absent growth rings. Vessels round, solitary or in pairs, tangential diameter 50–100 μm and less than 5 vessels per square mm. Perforation plates are simple. Intervessel and vessel-ray pits are the same, alternately arranged and 6–8 μm in diameter. Apotracheal parenchyma in narrow terminal or initial bands. Paratracheal parenchyma is vasicentric to rarely aliform. Rays are low, uni- to triseriate with the uniseriate sections as wide as the triseriate sections, heterocellular with mixed procumbent, square and upright cells. Prismatic crystals occur in the upright and square ray cells.

Etymology

The species name refers to Gorongosa National Park with the Latin suffix ense meaning “from”.

Stratigraphy

Paleogene, Eocene
Mazamba Formation, probably late Eocene

Locality

Mozambique
Muaredzi Site 5 (18°56′02.0″S, 34°36′50.6″E) fossil wood associated with palaeopan, northwest side