A new genus of Anacardiaceae based on wood from the Tepetate Formation (upper Eocene) of Baja California Sur, Mexico

 

Authors: Mejia-Roldan AJ, González-Barba G, Rodríguez-Reyes O, Estrada-Ruiz E

Published in: Bulletin of Geosciences, volume 99, issue 1; pages: 73 - 83; Received 20 September 2023; Accepted in revised form 3 April 2024; Online 14 April 2024

Keywords: Baja California Peninsula, eudicots, fossil woods, Sapindales,

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Abstract

We describe a new fossil wood genus of Anacardiaceae with two species from the Tepetate Formation (upper Eocene), Baja California Sur State, Mexico. The first species has distinct growth ring boundaries, vessels solitary and in radial multiples; alternate intervessel pitting, and the vessel-ray parenchyma pits with reduced borders. Its other features are: non-septate and septate fibers, axial parenchyma rare, and rays mostly uniseriate except for those with radial canals. The second species has distinct growth ring boundaries, vessels solitary and in radial multiples (a higher percentage of solitary vessels than the first species), vessel-ray pits with a horizontal to round shape, all fibers nonseptate, vasicentric axial parenchyma, heterocellular rays and radial canals in some multiseriate rays. The diagnostic traits in both woods allow us to erect in a new fossil genus, Pericuxylon with two species in the Anacardiaceae family. The occurrence of Anacardiaceae in the late Eocene of southern Baja California Sur confirms its long geological history and importance in forests of northern Mexico.

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