Agathoxylon santacruzense Kloster et Gnaed.

Plant Fossil Names Registry Number: PFN000203

Act LSID: urn:lsid:plantfossilnames.org:act:203

Authors: A. C. Kloster & S. C. Gnaedinger

Rank: species

Reference: Kloster, A. C. & Gnaedinger, S. C. (2018): Coniferous wood of Agathoxylon from the La Matilde Formation, (Middle Jurassic), Santa Cruz, Argentina. – Journal of Paleontology 92(4): 546–567.

Page of description: 557

Illustrations or figures: figs 7, 8

Types

Original diagnosis/description

Wood type (tracheid radial pitting) is araucarian (100% of the contiguous pits are araucarioid). Pits are araucarioid, uniseriate, flattened, and circular; alternate biseriate, circular, and hexagonal; uniseriate, partially biseriate, alternate, circular, hexagonal-flattened; and opposite circular, hexagonal-flattened in a pair or several pairs (japonicum type); and triseriate and bitriseriate, alternate circular and hexagonal. Cross-fields are araucarioid, with 2–14, 20 pits, circular, with elliptical or sometimes circular apertures, whose frequency range is 6–8 pits, arranged in disordered groups or crown-shaped or some in two or four horizontal rows. The rays are homogeneous, mostly uniseriate, and the height in number of cells is 1–16, 20.

Etymology

In reference to Santa Cruz province, Argentina, where the analyzed wood was found.

Stratigraphy

Jurassic, Middle Jurassic
La Matilde Formation

Locality

Argentina
Santa Cruz Province