Pterocaryoxylon tuncayi Ü. Akkemik in Akkemik, Akkılıç & Güngör

Plant Fossil Names Registry Number: PFN000544

Act LSID: urn:lsid:plantfossilnames.org:act:544

Author: Ü. Akkemik (as Ü. Akkemik)

Rank: species

Reference: Akkemik, Ü., Akkılıç, H. & Güngör, Y. (2019): Fossil wood from the Neogene of the Kilyos coastal area in Istanbul, Turkey. – Palaeontographica, Abt. B 299(1–6): 133–185.

Page of description: 144

Illustrations or figures: text-fig. 4, pl. 7

Types

Original diagnosis/description

Growth ring boundaries indistinct or distinct, wood semi-ring to diffuse porous, 5–20 cells per mm2, vessel diameters 100–200 µm, perforation plates simple, helical thickenings common in vessel elements, axial parenchyma diffuse, commonly in tangential bands up to three cells wide, and scanty paratracheal. Rays 1–3 seriate, up to 29 cells in height, body ray cells procumbent with 1–4 rows of square or wider marginal cells; prismatic crystals in chambered axial parenchyma cells common.

Etymology

The epithet tuncayi is given in honour of Dr. Tuncay Güner, an acknowledged palaeobotanist working on fossil plants in Turkey.

Stratigraphy

Neogene, Miocene, Burdigalian
Ağaçlı Member of Danişmen Formation, early Miocene

Note: Burdigalian age specified by Ü. Akkemik to PFNR.

Locality

Turkey
Black Sea coast (Dalyan beach) of the city of Kilyos of Istanbul, 1° 15′ 02.06″ N and 29° 03′ 54.51″ E