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Antarctoxylon livingstonense
Antarctoxylon livingstonense I. Poole, Cantrill Palaeontology, 44(6): 1100. Nov 2001
- Name
- Antarctoxylon livingstonense
- Rank
- Species
- Original spelling
- livingstonensis
- 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
- 1100
- 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. 1806.17
- Diagnosis
- Diffuse porous. Vessels solitary, in small clusters or radial chains of up to about seven pores; vessel diameters small to medium. Perforation plates scalariform (up to 55), occasionally branched. Intervessel pits dense, mainly transitional to scalariform. Vessel-ray pitting scalariform. Rays up to 5- seriate, heterocellular with occasional `border' or sheath cells. Multiseriate rays always <1´5mm in height.
