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Araucarioxylon ghoshii
Araucarioxylon ghoshii S. Bera, M. Banerjee Palaeobotanist, 50(1): 64. Jun 2001
- Name
- Araucarioxylon ghoshii
- Rank
- Species
- Generic Name
- [Genus] Araucarioxylon
- Authors (Pub.)
- Bera S.
Banerjee M.
- Publication
- Similar tree ring pattern in the Gymnosperm woods from Late Permian of Antarctica and India. [2001/6]
- Journal
- Palaeobotanist
- Volume
- 50
- Issue
- 1
- Page number
- 64
- Year
- 2001
- Fossil Status
- stems (wood)
- Stratigraphy
- Lopingian
- Strat. comment
- Raniganj Formation
- Location
- Andal Railway Station, Raniganj Coalfield, India
- Paleoregion
- Gondwana (Indostan)
Data for Holotypus
- Repository
- Botany Department, University of Kolkata, Kolkata, India
- Repository Number
- PPL/PW/1-4 [4 specimens of silicified woods]
- Diagnosis
- Secondary wood with distinct growth rings, Growth rings with scanty (3-6 cells wide) late wood. Xylem rays homogenous, uniseriate or rarely biseriate, 3-29 (mostly 315 cells) cells high. Radial walls oftracheids with 3-4 seriate (mostly 3-seriate), contiguous, subopposite to alternate, subcircular to hexagonal bordered pits. Cross field pits weakly bordered, 2-6 (usually 3-4) in number.
