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Brachyoxylon patagonicum
Brachyoxylon patagonicum Rombola, C.D. Greppi, Pujana in Rombola, C.D. Greppi, Pujana, Garc.-Massini, Bellosi, Marenssi Cretac. Res., 2022, 130(105065): 3. 20 Oct 2021
- Name
- Brachyoxylon patagonicum
- Rank
- Species
- Generic Name
- [Genus] Brachyoxylon
- Authors (Name)
- Rombola C. F.
Greppi C. D.
Pujana R. R.
- Authors (Pub.)
- Rombola C. F.
Greppi C. D.
Pujana R. R.
García Massini J. L.
Bellosi E. S.
Marenssi S. A.
- Publication
- Brachyoxylon fossil woods with traumatic resin canals from the Upper
Cretaceous Cerro Fortaleza Formation, southern Patagonia (Santa Cruz
Province, Argentina) [2021/10]
- Journal
- Cretaceous Research
- Annee/Jahrgang
- 2022
- Volume
- 130
- Issue
- 105065
- Page number
- 3
- Year
- 2021
- Fossil Status
- stems (wood)
- Stratigraphy
- Campanian
- Strat. comment
- Cerro Fortaleza Formation
- Location
- Los Hornos Hill, Santa Cruz Province, Argentina
- Latitude/Longitude
- 49:49:47S
- 72:60:56W
- Paleoregion
- Gondwana (South America)
Data for Holotypus
- Repository
- Museo Regional Provincial Padre Manuel Jesús Molina, Santa Cruz, Argentina
- Repository Number
- MPM PB 18277 (2 TS, 3 RLS, and 1 TLS)
Data for Paratypus
- Repository
- Museo Regional Provincial Padre Manuel Jesús Molina, Santa Cruz, Argentina
- Repository Number
- MPM PB 18278 (2 TS, 2 RLS, and 1 TLS)
- Diagnosis
- Secondary xylem composed of tracheids and rays.
Growth ring boundaries distinct, latewood with 1e4 rows of tracheids.
Intertracheary radial pitting mixed and exclusively uniseriate.
Cross-fields with usually 1e8 half-bordered, mostly
contiguous and alternate, pits per cross-field (araucarioid crossfields).
Rays uniseriate, height medium. Horizontal and end walls
of ray parenchyma cells smooth. Axial parenchyma absent.
