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Kaokoxylon punctatum
Kaokoxylon punctatum Kurzawe, Merlotti, Iannuzzi in Kurzawe, Iannuzzi, Merlotti, Rohn Rev. Palaeobot. Palynol., 195: 55. 9 Jan 2013
- Name
- Kaokoxylon punctatum
- Rank
- Species
- Generic Name
- [Genus] Kaokoxylon
- Authors (Name)
- Kurzawe F.
Merlotti S.
Iannuzzi R.
- Authors (Pub.)
- Kurzawe F.
Iannuzzi R.
Merlotti S.
Rohn R.
- Publication
- New gymnospermous woods from the Permian of the Parnaíba Basin, Northeastern Brazil, Part II [2013/1]
- Journal
- Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology
- Volume
- 195
- Page number
- 55
- Year
- 2013
- Fossil Status
- stems (wood)
- Stratigraphy
- Permian
- Strat. comment
- Lower Motuca Formation
- Location
- Peba Farm, Filadélfia, Tocantins, Brazil
- Paleoregion
- Gondwana (S America)
Data for Holotypus
- Repository
- Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Institute of Geoscience, Porto Alegre, Brazil
- Repository Number
- MP–Pb 5038, slides MP–Pb 5038 01–
- Diagnosis
- Medium pith, solid and heterocellular, with nests of sclereids.
Some parenchyma cells are pitted. Primary xylem endarch. Secondary
xylem homoxylic, without growth rings. Radial pitting araucarian,
uniseriate to biseriate. Xylem rays uniseriate, medium (1–13 cells
high). Araucarioid cross-fields showing 1–3 unordered oculipores.
