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<paragraph blockId="9.[843,1482,1137,1194]" pageId="9" pageNumber="308">H o l o t y p e. Designated here. UF 279-24559 (Textfig. 5ag).</paragraph>
<paragraph blockId="9.[843,1479,1217,1273]" box="[881,1479,1217,1241]" pageId="9" pageNumber="308">P l a n t F o s s i l N a m e s R e g i s t r y N u m b e r.</paragraph>
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<collectionCode box="[881,899,1296,1319]" country="Chile" name="Departamento de Geologia, Universidad de Chile" pageId="9" pageNumber="308">R</collectionCode>
e p o s i t o r y.
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T y p e l o c a l i t y. UF 279. About
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Crook County,
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<paragraph blockId="9.[843,1482,1454,1510]" box="[881,1482,1454,1479]" pageId="9" pageNumber="308">T y p e s t r a t u m a n d a g e. John Day Formation,</paragraph>
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<paragraph blockId="9.[843,1482,1533,1589]" box="[881,1482,1533,1558]" pageId="9" pageNumber="308">E t y m o l o g y. Named for Melvin Ashwill, who alerted</paragraph>
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S. R.
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<paragraph blockId="9.[843,1482,1612,1861]" pageId="9" pageNumber="308">D i a g n o s i s. Growth rings distinct. Semi-ring-porous to diffuse-porous. Exclusively solitary vessels in a diagonal to radial arrangement. Simple perforation plates. Vesselray parenchyma pits with reduced borders, often vertically elongate. Vasicentric tracheids present. Axial parenchyma diffuse, diffuse-in-aggregates and in uniseriate lines. Nonseptate fibers. Uniseriate rays and aggregate rays composed of loosely associated narrow rays.</paragraph>
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D e s c r i p t i o n. Minimum estimated diameter of
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Vessels in diagonal to radial alignment; exclusively solitary, round to oval in outline (
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), mean tangential diameter of the earlywood vessels (first three rows) 208 (28)215 (39) µm, 160260 µm. Simple perforation plates (
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), end walls of vessel elements usually horizontal (
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Text-fig.
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). Vessel-ray parenchyma pits with reduced borders and commonly vertically elongated (Textfig. 5d). Thin-walled tyloses common in wider vessels.
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Text-fig. 5.
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, UF 279-24544. a, b: Semi-ring porous wood, exclusively solitary vessels in a radial/ diagonal arrangement, diffuse axial parenchyma, TS. c: Homocellular rays composed of procumbent cells; vasicentric tracheids; vessel elements with simple perforation plates (PP), TLS. d: Vessel-ray parenchyma pits (VRP) with reduced borders, vertical, RLS. e: Crystalliferous axial parenchyma strand (C) with a single crystal per chamber; ray with procumbent cells, RLS. f: Aggregate ray (right) composed of loosely associated 12-seriate rays, TLS. g: Uniseriate rays, thin-walled tyloses in vessels, vasicentric tracheids (VT).
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Non-septate fibers of medium wall thickness. Some with small (ca. 3 µm) bordered pits on radial walls. Vasicentric tracheids present (
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).
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Axial parenchyma apotracheal diffuse, diffuse-inaggregates, and in 1-seriate lines (
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), 48 cells per strand.
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Rays uniseriate (
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), homocellular composed of procumbent cells and heterocellular with some square and upright cells; upright and square cells more common in region of vessels. Some loosely aggregate rays composed of 12(3)-seriate rays (
<figureCitation box="[355,480,601,625]" captionStart="Text-fig" captionStartId="10.[125,206,1881,1902]" captionTargetBox="[125,1440,144,1866]" captionTargetId="figure-3@10.[120,1440,137,1873]" captionTargetPageId="10" captionText="Text-fig. 5. Lithocarpoxylon ashwillii sp. nov., UF 279-24544. a, b: Semi-ring porous wood, exclusively solitary vessels in a radial/ diagonal arrangement, diffuse axial parenchyma, TS. c: Homocellular rays composed of procumbent cells; vasicentric tracheids; vesselelements with simple perforation plates (PP), TLS. d: Vessel-ray parenchyma pits (VRP) with reduced borders, vertical,RLS. e: Crystalliferous axial parenchyma strand (C) with a single crystal per chamber; ray with procumbent cells, RLS. f: Aggregate ray (right) composed of loosely associated 12-seriate rays, TLS. g: Uniseriate rays, thin-walled tyloses in vessels, vasicentric tracheids (VT). Lithocarpoxylon sp., UF 279-84864. h, i: Semi-ring porous wood, exclusively solitary vessels in radial arrangement. j: Aggregate ray and uniseriate rays. k: Scalariform perforation plate with fewer than 10 bars. l: Vessel-ray parenchyma pits with reduced borders to simple, vertical. Scale bars: 200 µm in a, b, f, h, j; 100 µm in c, i; 50 µm in d. e; 20 µm in k, l." figureDoi="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7167593" httpUri="https://zenodo.org/record/7167593/files/figure.png" pageId="11" pageNumber="310">Text-fig. 5f</figureCitation>
). Rays 21547 cells high; uniseriate rays 121518/mm.
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Solitary prismatic crystals occasional in chambered axial parenchyma, 1 crystal per chamber, number of chambers 210 (
<figureCitation box="[196,323,729,753]" captionStart="Text-fig" captionStartId="10.[125,206,1881,1902]" captionTargetBox="[125,1440,144,1866]" captionTargetId="figure-3@10.[120,1440,137,1873]" captionTargetPageId="10" captionText="Text-fig. 5. Lithocarpoxylon ashwillii sp. nov., UF 279-24544. a, b: Semi-ring porous wood, exclusively solitary vessels in a radial/ diagonal arrangement, diffuse axial parenchyma, TS. c: Homocellular rays composed of procumbent cells; vasicentric tracheids; vesselelements with simple perforation plates (PP), TLS. d: Vessel-ray parenchyma pits (VRP) with reduced borders, vertical,RLS. e: Crystalliferous axial parenchyma strand (C) with a single crystal per chamber; ray with procumbent cells, RLS. f: Aggregate ray (right) composed of loosely associated 12-seriate rays, TLS. g: Uniseriate rays, thin-walled tyloses in vessels, vasicentric tracheids (VT). Lithocarpoxylon sp., UF 279-84864. h, i: Semi-ring porous wood, exclusively solitary vessels in radial arrangement. j: Aggregate ray and uniseriate rays. k: Scalariform perforation plate with fewer than 10 bars. l: Vessel-ray parenchyma pits with reduced borders to simple, vertical. Scale bars: 200 µm in a, b, f, h, j; 100 µm in c, i; 50 µm in d. e; 20 µm in k, l." figureDoi="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7167593" httpUri="https://zenodo.org/record/7167593/files/figure.png" pageId="11" pageNumber="310">Text-fig. 5e</figureCitation>
).
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C o m p a r i s o n s w i t h e x t a n t w o o d s. The affinities of this wood are clearly with the
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because of the combination of semi-ring-porosity (4p), exclusively solitary vessels that are in a radial to diagonal arrangement (7p 9p), vertical vessel-ray parenchyma pits with reduced borders (32p), vasicentric tracheids (60p), and aggregate rays (101p).
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Aggregate rays are rare in this fossil and comprised of loosely associated narrow ray
<emphasis box="[518,528,1034,1057]" italics="true" pageId="11" pageNumber="310">s</emphasis>
, similar to rays of
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<emphasis box="[128,452,1066,1090]" italics="true" pageId="11" pageNumber="310">Notholithocarpus densiflorus</emphasis>
(HOOK. et ARN.) MANOS, CANNON et S.H.OH
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(synonym:
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<emphasis box="[502,767,1098,1122]" italics="true" pageId="11" pageNumber="310">Lithocarpus densiflorus</emphasis>
(HOOK. et ARN.) REHDER
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) (BWCw 8593). Images in InsideWood, the on-line FFPRI Database of Japanese Woods (
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Identification Database Team, FFPRI accessed 20202021), and wood anatomical atlases (
<bibRefCitation author="Ilic, J." box="[593,693,1226,1250]" pageId="11" pageNumber="310" refId="ref24677" refString="Ilic, J. (1991): CSIRO Atlas of Hardwoods. - Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 525 pp." type="book" year="1991">Ilic 1991</bibRefCitation>
,
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) indicate that aggregate rays in the evergreen oaks and
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<emphasis box="[243,372,1290,1314]" italics="true" pageId="11" pageNumber="310">Lithocarpus</emphasis>
BLUME species
</taxonomicName>
are more common and composed of considerably wider individual rays. Two samples of
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<emphasis box="[267,397,1355,1378]" italics="true" pageId="11" pageNumber="310">Castanopsis</emphasis>
(D.DON) SPACH
</taxonomicName>
(TWTw 22503, TWTw 15003) have aggregate rays composed of 13-seriate rays, but they were more closely associated than in this fossil. It is tempting to consider that this fossil might have affinities with
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<emphasis box="[282,469,1483,1507]" italics="true" pageId="11" pageNumber="310">Notholithocarpus</emphasis>
MANOS, CANNON et S.H.OH
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, a western North America endemic, found to be more closely related to
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than to
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<emphasis box="[504,633,1547,1571]" italics="true" pageId="11" pageNumber="310">Lithocarpus</emphasis>
(
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)
</taxonomicName>
. However, we only saw a small sampling of the hundreds of extant species of evergreen oaks,
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</taxonomicName>
, and
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<emphasis box="[172,301,1643,1667]" italics="true" pageId="11" pageNumber="310">Lithocarpus</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
, so we cannot be certain of that relationship.
</paragraph>
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C o m p a r i s o n s w i t h f o s s i l w o o d s. In their useful overview of
<taxonomicName box="[360,449,1723,1746]" class="Magnoliopsida" family="Fagaceae" genus="Quercus" kingdom="Plantae" order="Fagales" pageId="11" pageNumber="310" phylum="Tracheophyta" rank="genus">
<emphasis box="[360,449,1723,1746]" italics="true" pageId="11" pageNumber="310">Quercus</emphasis>
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L. and
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like fossil woods,
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emended the diagnosis of
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<emphasis box="[160,336,1787,1811]" italics="true" pageId="11" pageNumber="310">Lithocarpoxylon</emphasis>
(
<bibRefCitation author="Petrescu, L." box="[352,509,1787,1811]" pageId="11" pageNumber="310" pagination="113 - 184" refId="ref26615" refString="Petrescu, L. (1978): Studiul lemnelor fosile din Oligocenul din nord-vestul Transilvaniei [Study of fossil wood from the Oligocene of northwest Transylvania]. - Institut Geologie si Geofizica, Memorii 27: 113 - 184, 74 pls. (in Romanian)" type="journal article" year="1978">Petrescu 1978</bibRefCitation>
)
</taxonomicName>
and indicated that this name should be applied to fagaceous woods that are diffuse to semi-ring-porous, with radially arranged pores, and aggregate rays. They noted that this combination occurred not only in
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<emphasis box="[248,377,1915,1939]" italics="true" pageId="11" pageNumber="310">Lithocarpus</emphasis>
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, but in evergreen species of
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<emphasis box="[678,767,1916,1939]" italics="true" pageId="11" pageNumber="310">Quercus</emphasis>
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and tropical species of
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<emphasis box="[411,541,1948,1971]" italics="true" pageId="11" pageNumber="310">Castanopsis</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
. We are following Suzuki and Ohbas recommendation and assigning this Post Hammer wood to
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<emphasis box="[381,557,2012,2036]" italics="true" pageId="11" pageNumber="310">Lithocarpoxylon</emphasis>
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. To the best of our knowledge, no other
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<emphasis box="[370,546,2044,2068]" italics="true" pageId="11" pageNumber="310">Lithocarpoxylon</emphasis>
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has aggregate rays composed of such loosely associated 12-seriate rays, so we designate it a new species.
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described evergreen oak
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; transverse sections of two of their samples (15 and 20) suggest the possibility of similar aggregate rays, but, unfortunately, there were no tangential sections provided for verification.
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