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Weinmannioxylon eucryphioides
Weinmannioxylon eucryphioides I. Poole, R.J. Hunt, Cantrill Ann. Bot. (Oxford), 88(1): 40. Jul 2001
- Name
- Weinmannioxylon eucryphioides
- Rank
- Species
- Generic Name
- [Genus] Weinmannioxylon
- Authors (Pub.)
- Poole I.
Hunt R. J.
Cantrill D. J.
- Publication
- A fossil wood flora from King George Island: ecological implications for an Antarctic Eocene vegetation [2001/7]
- Journal
- Annals of Botany
- Volume
- 88
- Issue
- 1
- Page number
- 40
- Year
- 2001
- Fossil Status
- stems (wood)
- Stratigraphy
- Ypresian
- Strat. comment
- Fildes Formation / 49±43 Ma
- Location
- Collins Glacier Flora, Fildes Peninsula, King George Island, Antarctica
- Paleoregion
- Antarctica
Data for Holotypus
- Repository
- British Antarctic Survey, Cambridge, U.K.
- Repository Number
- P.3023.11
- Diagnosis
- Vessels numerous, mainly solitary, paired, rarely grouped; mean tangential diameter approx. 50 mm; mean element length 700 mm. Perforations plates
scalariform with numerous bars, rarely simple. Intervessel and vessel ray pitting opposite to scalariform. Rays heterocellular; uniseriate, locally biseriate; up to 1000 mm in height.
Nomenclatural synonyms (basionyms)
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