Cretaceoxylon Pujana in Pujana, Iglesias, Raffi & Olivero

Plant Fossil Names Registry Number: PFN002660

Act LSID: urn:lsid:plantfossilnames.org:act:2660

Author: R. R. Pujana

Rank: genus

Reference: Pujana, R. R., Iglesias, A., Raffi, M. E. & Olivero, E. B. (2018): Angiosperm fossil woods from the Upper Cretaceous of Western Antarctica (Santa Marta Formation). – Cretaceous Research 90: 349–362.

Page of description: 357

Type

Original diagnosis/description

Secondary xylem. Vessels solitary or in short radial multiples. Perforation plates simple and scalariform. Rays multiseriate, heterocellular. Vessel-ray parenchyma pits of two types. Axial parenchyma present.

Etymology

Cretaceo after the age of the holder sediments, xylon, wood.