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Gassonoxylon

Genus Gassonoxylon E.A. Wheeler, T.M. Lehman I.A.W.A. J., 21(1): 108. 2000
Name
Gassonoxylon
Rank
Genus
Authors (Pub.)
Wheeler E. A. Lehman T. M.  
Publication
Late Cretaceous woody dicots from the Aguja and Javelina Formations, Big Bend National Park, Texas, USA [2000]
Journal
IAWA Journal
Volume
21
Issue
1
Page number
108
Year
2000
Parent Taxon
[Class] Magnoliopsida
Fossil Status
stems (wood)
Type
Gassonoxylon araliosum
Diagnosis
Wood diffuse-porous. Vessels solitary and in short radial multiples, some tendency to vessels arranged in a tangential pattern, tangential diameter less than 100 μm, fewer than 20 per mm2. Perforations simple, intervessel pits crowded alternate. Axial parenchyma scanty paratracheal to vasicentric. Heterocellular rays, less than 1 mm high, and mostly less than 4 cells wide.
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