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Cretaceoxylon heteropunctatum
Cretaceoxylon heteropunctatum Pujana in Pujana, A. Iglesias, Raffi, Olivero Cretac. Res., 90: 357. 18 Jun 2018
- Name
- Cretaceoxylon heteropunctatum
- Rank
- Species
- Generic Name
- [Genus] Cretaceoxylon
- Authors (Name)
- Pujana R. R.
- Authors (Pub.)
- Pujana R. R.
Iglesias A.
Raffi M. E.
Olivero E. B.
- Publication
- Angiosperm fossil woods from the Upper Cretaceous of Western Antarctica (Santa Marta Formation) [2018/6]
- Journal
- Cretaceous Research
- Volume
- 90
- Page number
- 357
- Year
- 2018
- Fossil Status
- stems (wood)
- Stratigraphy
- Campanian
- Location
- James Ross Island, Antarctica
- Paleoregion
- Gondwana (Antarctica)
Data for Holotypus
- Repository
- Instituto Antártico Argentino, Dirección Nacional del Antártico, Buenos Aires, Argentina
- Repository Number
- IAA-Pb 108
- Num
- fig. 5
- Diagnosis
- Growth ring boundaries absent to indistinct. Vessels solitary or mostly in short radial multiples. Perforation plates simple and scalariform with few bars (usually less than 12). Rays uniseriate to 4-seriate, heterocellular. Vessel-ray parenchyma pits of two types, scalariform and large elliptical. Axial parenchyma common and diffuse.
