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Antarctoxylon
Genus Antarctoxylon I. Poole, Cantrill Palaeontology, 44(6): 1100. Nov 2001
- Name
- Antarctoxylon
- Rank
- Genus
- Authors (Pub.)
- Poole I.
Cantrill D. J.
- Publication
- Fossil woods from Williams Point Beds, Livingston Island, Antarctica: A Late Cretaceous Southern High Latitude Flora [2001/11]
- Journal
- Palaeontology
- Volume
- 44
- Issue
- 6
- Page number
- 1100
- Year
- 2001
- Parent Taxon
- [Class] Magnoliopsida
- Fossil Status
- stems (wood)
- Type
- Antarctoxylon livingstonense
- Diagnosis
- Xylem of dicotyledonous angiosperm. Growth rings absent or indistinct. Wood diffuse to semi-ring porous. Vessels solitary and/or grouped. Perforation plates simple and/or scalariform. Rays heterocellular, mainly multiseriate. Parenchyma diffuse.
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