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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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