Zelkovoxylon yesimae Akkemik et I.Poole in Akkemik

Plant Fossil Names Registry Number: PFN000362

Act LSID: urn:lsid:plantfossilnames.org:act:362

Rank: species

Reference: Akkemik, Ü. (2019): Validation of four new plant fossil names from Turkey. – Fossil Imprint 75(2): 289–291.

Page of description: 290

Illustrations or figures: Tet-fig. 1c

Types

Holotype HAY02, Department of Forest Botany, Faculty of Forestry, Istanbul University-Cerrahpasa, Istanbul, Turkey
Figures: Text-fig. 1c

Note: Holotype figured also in Akkemik et al. (2018: Rev. Palaeobot. Palynol., 254: pls IV, V).

Original diagnosis/description

Wood of the new species is ring porous; earlywood vessels wider and in 2–3 rows; solitary or up to 4 vessels in radial multiples; latewood pores are
narrow, generally in clusters and diagonal bands. Rays are heterocellular, body ray cells procumbent with one or two rows of upright cells, and ray width 1–2 seriate. Prismatic crystals common in the axial parenchyma cells (Akkemik et al. 2018).

Etymology

The epithet yesimae originates from the name Yeşim. It is used in honor of Yeşim Akkemik, as she has been one of the most patient persons in my very hard scientific life.

Stratigraphy

Neogene, Miocene
Earliest Miocene

Locality

Turkey
Near the village of Çayraz in the Haymana Basin (Ankara) at 32° 33′ 49″ E longitude and 39° 28′ 46″ N latitude

Plant fossil remain

fossil wood

Notes

The name was firstly published in Akkemik, Ü., Atici, G., Poole, I., Çobankaya, M. (2018: Rev. Palaeobot. Palynol., 254: 53) as nomen nudum. No type was designated using the words “typus” or “holotypus”, or its abbreviation, or its equivalent in a modern language, which is mandatory on or after 1 January 1990 (see ICN 40.6).

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