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Scalarixylon patagonicum
Scalarixylon patagonicum Pujana Austral. Syst. Bot., 20(2): 120. 26 Apr 2007
- Name
- Scalarixylon patagonicum
- Rank
- Species
- Generic Name
- [Genus] Scalarixylon
- Authors (Pub.)
- Pujana R. R.
- Publication
- New fossil woods of Proteaceae from the Oligocene of southern Patagonia [2007/4]
- Journal
- Australian Systematic Botany
- Volume
- 20
- Issue
- 2
- Page number
- 120
- Year
- 2007
- Fossil Status
- stems (wood)
- Stratigraphy
- Oligocene
- Location
- Arroyo de los Guanaquitos, Santa Cruz Province, Argentina
- Paleoregion
- America (South)
Data for Holotypus
- Repository
- Museo Regional Provincial Padre Manuel Jesús Molina, Santa Cruz, Argentina
- Repository Number
- MPMPB 1976 (with slides MPMPB 1976 a–c)
- Diagnosis
- Tangential bands usually 2–3 vessels wide. Multiseriate rays normally up to 21 cells wide and 1–2 mm height. Uniseriate rays do not reach more than nine cells high.