Podocarpoxylon chapmanae

Name

Podocarpoxylon chapmanae

Rank

Species

Generic Name

[Genus] Podocarpoxylon

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

1088

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. 3055.258

Num

Pl. 2, figs 1-4

Pub.

Fossil woods from Williams Point Beds, Livingston Island, Antarctica: A Late Cretaceous Southern High Latitude Flora [2001/11]

Diagnosis

Compact wood largely composed of tracheids with rare to absent axial parenchyma. Tracheids either with uniseriate or biseriate rows of podocarpoid pits on the radial walls. Pit contiguity 3´8±4´4. Cross-®elds occupied by 1±4 pits; where two pits are present they are either opposite or oblique in arrangement. Tangential walls with small circular bordered pits that occur either isolated or in short rows up to four pits tall.