Nuevos registros de maderas del Mioceno de la Formación Solimões, Cuenca de Acre, Amazonia, Brasil

Abstract

New fossil wood records associated to the families Lecythidaceae, Calophyllaceae, Combretaceae and Arecaceae for the Miocene of the Solimões Formation, Acre Basin, Brazil, are described. The specimens have been collected on the banks of the Juruá and Envira rivers. The main anatomical characters that allowed relating the specimens to these families are tangential diameter and distribution of vessels per mm2, parenchyma type, intravascular pits and types and sizes of rays. It is the first record of Carinianoxylon brasiliense Selmeier, Calophyloxylon eoionophyllum Prakash and Awasthi, Terminalioxylon erichensii Mussa and Palmoxylon Schenk for formation; in addition, a new species for the genus Lecythioxylon Milanez is described. Systematic comparisons have been made with the other fossil records of these families in other Gondwana formations. The paleoflora of the Solimões Formation analyzed here shows a great richness of taxonomic groups, reason why this work provides new and important data for the knowledge of the paleoflora of the Amazon region.