Alloceltidoxylon Doweld

Doweld, Alexander B., 2021, Fossil Alloceltidoxylon, Allonymphaea, Arecocaryon, Paralnoxylon and Paranyssa and extant Komaroviopsis, Marcanodendron, and Papyrocactus (Magnoliophyta), new replacement generic names, Phytotaxa 524 (2), pp. 92-98 : 93

Alloceltidoxylon Doweld, nom. nov.

≡ Scottoxylon Wheeler & Manchester, I. A.W. A. J. Supplement 3: 130. 2002, nom. illeg. non Scotoxylon Vogellehner in Palaeontographica, Abt. B, Paläophytol. 124: 150. 1968.

IFPNI registration LSID: 950D6BCC-7D18-C1B1-DEE8-6178D78A785F

Type— Alloceltidoxylon eocenicum (Wheeler & Manchester) Doweld, comb. nov.

≡ Scottoxylon eocenicum Wheeler & Manchester, I. A.W. A. J. (Supplement 3): 130. 2002.

Holotype — U.S.A.: Clarno Nut Beds, Wheeler Co., Oregon ( USNM 507952 , National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, USA) – figured: fig. 42.

IFPNI registration LSID: F414FE14-C9BE-E0E1-8DBA-91C932B0BD4A.

Stratigraphy: Eocene (Ypresian: Clarno Formation).

Etymology: by superficial likeness to the woods of extant Celtis Linnaeus (1753: 1043) .

The fossil-genus Scottoxylon Wheeler & Manchester was described on the basis of fossil woods from the Middle Eocene (Ypresian) sediments of Clarno Nut Beds, Oregon, USA (Clarno Formation). However, the fossil-generic name is a later illegitimate (para)homonym of fossil wood genus Scotoxylon Vegellehner (1967) of protopinoid plants of the Upper Jurassic age from Helmsdale, Sutherland, Scotland, U.K. Thus, a new replacement name for the fossil wood generic name putatively related to the extant genus Celtis L. is necessary and validated.