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Araucariopitys antarctica
Araucariopitys antarctica I. Poole, Cantrill Palaeontology, 44(6): 1086. Nov 2001
- Name
- Araucariopitys antarctica
- Rank
- Species
- Original spelling
- antarcticus
- Generic Name
- [Genus] Araucariopitys
- 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
- 1086
- 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. 1806.9
- Diagnosis
- Secondary wood with predominantly uniseriate pitting. Biseriate pitting, alternate, closepacked, pits circular to hexagonal and con®ned to the ends of tracheids. Cross-®elds characterized by 2±9 pits (mode 6, mean 5´8). Rays short, uniseriate, 1±14 (mode 4; mean 4´65) cells tall.
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