TY - JOUR
T1 - Evidence of large Anacardiaceae trees from the Oligocene-early Miocene Santiago Formation, Azuero, Panama
AU - Rodríguez-Reyes, Oris
AU - Estrada-Ruiz, Emilio
AU - Gasson, Peter
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
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PY - 2020
Y1 - 2020
N2 - We have poor knowledge of the plants that inhabited Central America during the Cenozoic. One of the families with a rich fossil record worldwide, especially for the Oligocene and Miocene epochs is Anacardiaceae. Llanodelacruzoxylon sandovalii gen. et sp. nov. is the first formal record of a fossil wood of Anacardiaceae found in Panama and Central America to date. We collected the fossil woods in the Oligocene-Miocene Santiago Formation, in the Azuero Peninsula, Panama. Among the samples collected we have described and identified this new fossil genus of Anacardiaceae, using wood anatomical characters and extensive comparisons with fossil and extant material. These two specimens share diagnostic features with several Anacardiaceae woods, such as: large vessels (>200 μm), simple vessel-ray pitting and rays mostly uniseriate with large crystals. The occurrence of these Anacardiaceae in Panama by the Oligocene to Miocene adds to the understanding of the historical biogeography of the family and supports Central America (including Mexico) being a divergence center of the Anacardiaceae.
AB - We have poor knowledge of the plants that inhabited Central America during the Cenozoic. One of the families with a rich fossil record worldwide, especially for the Oligocene and Miocene epochs is Anacardiaceae. Llanodelacruzoxylon sandovalii gen. et sp. nov. is the first formal record of a fossil wood of Anacardiaceae found in Panama and Central America to date. We collected the fossil woods in the Oligocene-Miocene Santiago Formation, in the Azuero Peninsula, Panama. Among the samples collected we have described and identified this new fossil genus of Anacardiaceae, using wood anatomical characters and extensive comparisons with fossil and extant material. These two specimens share diagnostic features with several Anacardiaceae woods, such as: large vessels (>200 μm), simple vessel-ray pitting and rays mostly uniseriate with large crystals. The occurrence of these Anacardiaceae in Panama by the Oligocene to Miocene adds to the understanding of the historical biogeography of the family and supports Central America (including Mexico) being a divergence center of the Anacardiaceae.
KW - Anacarcadiaceae
KW - Fossil wood
KW - Oligocene-miocene
KW - Panama
KW - Santiago formation
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U2 - 10.18268/BSGM2020v72n2a300719
DO - 10.18268/BSGM2020v72n2a300719
M3 - Artículo
AN - SCOPUS:85088122568
SN - 1405-3322
VL - 72
SP - 1
EP - 12
JO - Boletin de la Sociedad Geologica Mexicana
JF - Boletin de la Sociedad Geologica Mexicana
IS - 2
ER -