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Antarctoxylon multiseriatum
Antarctoxylon multiseriatum I. Poole, Cantrill Palaeontology, 44(6): 1104. Nov 2001
- Name
- Antarctoxylon multiseriatum
- Rank
- Species
- Generic Name
- [Genus] Antarctoxylon
- 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
- 1104
- Year
- 2001
- Fossil Status
- stems (wood)
- Stratigraphy
- Cenomanian
- Location
- Williams Point, Livingston Island, Antarctica
- Paleoregion
- Antarctica
Data for Holotypus
- Repository
- British Antarctic Survey, Cambridge, U.K.
- Repository Number
- P. 1806.10
- Diagnosis
- Diffuse to semi-ring porous. Vessels solitary or in radial chains of up to seven; vessel tangential diameter small. Perforation plates scalariform with c. 15 bars per plate. Intervessel pitting bordered, tightly packed, alternate, opposite and scalariform. Vessel-ray pitting circular to scalariform. Rays of two sizes: uniseriate/biseriate and multiseriate, heterocellular. Multiseriate rays up to 11-seriate and majority >1´5mm in height.
