Podocarpoxylon verticalis I.Poole et Cantrill
Plant Fossil Names Registry Number: PFN000391
Act LSID: urn:lsid:plantfossilnames.org:act:391
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: 1092
Illustrations or figures: pl. 2, figs 5–6, pl. 3, figs 1–2
Types
Holotype P. 3055.273, British Antarctic Survey, Cambridge, United Kingdom
Figures: pl. 2, figs 5–6, pl. 3, figs 1–2
Note: paratype: P. 3055.262
Original protologue
Wood composed of tracheids and rare axial parenchyma (Pl. 3, fig. 2). Tracheids commonly with uniseriate rows of podocarpoid pits on the radial walls. Pit contiguity high, 6.3–8.2. Cross-field regions with 1–5 pits; where two pits are present they are vertical, only rarely oblique in arrangement.
Etymology
Latin verticalis, referring to the characteristic vertical arrangement of the cross-field pits.
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
Plant fossil remain
fossil wood