Antarctoxylon heteroporosum I.Poole et Cantrill

Plant Fossil Names Registry Number: PFN000397

Act LSID: urn:lsid:plantfossilnames.org:act:397

Authors: I. Poole & D. J. Cantrill

Rank: species

Reference: Poole, I. & Cantrill, D. J. (2001): Fossil Woods From Williams Point Beds, Livingston Island, Antarctica: A Late Cretaceous Southern High Latitude Flora. – Palaeontology 44(6): 1081–1112.

Page of description: 1106

Illustrations or figures: pl. 9, figs 1–6

Types

Original diagnosis/description

Vessels solitary, paired and in short radial groups (of up to six pores). Perforation plates simple and scalariform. Intervessel pitting opposite, transitional and scalariform. Vessel-ray pitting scalariform. Rays 1–4 cells wide, composed of procumbent and square cells.

Etymology

After the presence of both simple and scalariform perforation plates in the wood.

Stratigraphy

Cretaceous, Upper Cretaceous
Williams Point Beds, age-range of Cenomanian–early Campanian

Locality

Antarctica
ash-rich horizon outcropping between two large hydroclastic vents on Williams Point, Livingston Island, 62°28.5′S, 60°8.2′W