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Taxodioxylon vanderburghii
Taxodioxylon vanderburghii Dolezych in Dolezych, Jochmann, A.Gröschke Palaeontographica, Abt. B, Paläophytol., 284(4-6): 162. 1 Mar 2011
- Name
- Taxodioxylon vanderburghii
- Rank
- Species
- Generic Name
- [Genus] Taxodioxylon
- Authors (Name)
- Dolezych M.
- Authors (Pub.)
- Dolezych M.
Jochmann M.
Gröschke A.
- Publication
- The fossil wood and resin of Taxodioxylon vanderburghii nov spec. in Paleogene sediments of Svalbard [2011/3]
- Journal
- Palaeontographica
- Volume
- 284
- Issue
- 4-6
- Page number
- 162
- Year
- 2011
- Parent Taxon
- [Genus] Taxodioxylon
- Fossil Status
- wood
- Stratigraphy
- Oligocene
- Strat. comment
- Aspelintoppen Formation
- Location
- East slope of the Hisinger fjellet, Bromelldalen, Nathorstland, Spetsbergen
- Paleoregion
- Eurasia (Europe)
Data for Holotypus
- Repository
- Senckenberg Naturhistorische Sammlungen Dresden, Abteilung Museum für Mineralogie und Geologie, Dresden, Germany
- Repository Number
- 280707/12
- Diagnosis
- Coniferous wood with distinct growth rings. The transition from the early to late wood is abrupt. Tracheids in the early wood wider than in the late wood; the pits in the radial walls of the early wood tracheids occur in one to two vertical rows, opposite, occasionally alternate, when in contact with each other usually flattened. Crassulae present. Axial parenchyma rare, with thin smooth and only sometimes slightly nodular transverse end walls. Rays homocellular and uniseriate, up to 30 cells high. Horizontal and tangential ray-walls thick and smooth. Cross-field pits small, predominantly taxodioid and typically two to three per field.
