Fossil wood from the lower Miocene of Myanmar (Natma Formation): palaeoenvironmental and biogeographic implications
Author
Gentis, Nicolas
Author
Licht, Alexis
Author
Boura, Anaïs
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Aung, Dario De Franceschi Zaw Win Day Wa
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Dupont-Nivet, Guillaume
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Geodiversitas
2022
2022-09-29
44
28
853
909
journal article
160069
10.5252/geodiversitas2022v44a28
72def8b5-32ce-44ea-9b40-28a3d239c00c
1638-9395
7145305
urn:lsid:zoobank.org:pub:2611B0BC-F569-4135-A09C-6E527C2565A4
SIMPLIFIED IDENTIFICATION KEY FOR FOSSIL
DIPTEROCARPACEAE BLUME
This identification key is based on
Schweitzer (1958)
; with additional informations of
Anisopteroxylon
Ghosh & Kazmi
and
Hopenium
Awasthi
from
Poole
(1993)
and
Awasthi (1980)
respectively.
1. Secretory canals diffuse or in short tangential lines up to 8. Rarely long lines .............................................. 2
— Secretory canals almost always in long tangential lines. Rarely isolated ........................................................ 4
2. Narrow vessels (mean diameter <150 µm) ..................................................................................................... .......................................................................................
Vaterioxylon
Trivedi & Misra
/
Vaticoxylon
Schweitzer
— Wide vessels (mean diameter> 150 µm) ..................................................................................................... 3
3. Diffuse and small canals, sheath cells abundant ............................................
Anisopteroxylon
Ghosh & Kazmi
— Canals in short lines, solitary vessels .......................................................................
Dipterocarpoxylon
Holden
4. Exclusively solitary vessels, fibre-tracheids .........................................................
Dryobalanoxylon
Den Berger
— None of these combined ............................................................................................................................. 5
5. Upright or square cells interspaced with procumbent cells ................................................
Hopenium
Awasthi
— Only procumbent cells in median portion (or sheath cells) ........................................
Shoreoxylon
Den Berger