Notomalvaceoxylon magallanense L.C.A.Martínez et Leppe in Martínez, Leppe, Manríquez, Pino, Trevisan, Manfroi & Mansilla

Plant Fossil Names Registry Number: PFN003139

Act LSID: urn:lsid:plantfossilnames.org:act:3139

Authors: L. C. A. Martínez & M. Leppe

Rank: species

Genus: Notomalvaceoxylon L.C.A.Martínez et Leppe in Martínez, Leppe, Manríquez, Pino, Trevisan, Manfroi & Mansilla

Reference: Martínez, L. C. A., Leppe, M., Manríquez, L. L.M., Pino, J. P., Trevisan, C., Manfroi, J. & Mansilla, H. (2023): A unique Late Cretaceous fossil wood assemblage from Chilean Patagonia provides clues to a high-latitude continental environment. – Papers in Palaeontology 9(6): 1–45., link

Page of description: 19

Illustrations or figures: figs 9-10

Name is type for

Types

Original diagnosis/description

Wood diffuse–porous. Vessels from solitary to radial multiples of 4 or more common. Solitary vessels angular in outline. Simple and oblique perforation plates, and intervessel pits alternate from small to medium in size. Tyloses. Rounded, vertical, and horizontal vessel–ray pits with reduced borders. Vasicentric tracheids present. Fibres septate with simple pits. Large heterogeneous rays, 2–10‐seriate, with uniseriate marginal rows of up to 3 cells. Uniseriate rays of large upright cells. Multiseriate rays with procumbent, square and upright cells mixed throughout the ray. Tile cells (Pterospermum type). Sheath cells and aggregate rays.

Etymology

The specific name is derived from the Magallanes region of Chile, and the suffix ‐ense refers to where it was found.

Stratigraphy

Cretaceous, Upper Cretaceous, Maastrichtian
Austral Basin, Dorotea Formation.

Locality

Chile
El Puesto, Las Chinas River Valley, Magallanes Region.