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Conifer fossil woods from the Santa Marta Formation (Upper Cretaceous), Brandy Bay, James Ross Island, Antarctica
(Academic Press Ltd - Elsevier Science Ltd, 2017-09)
Conifer fossil woods from the Santonian to lower Campanian Santa Marta Formation are anatomically studied in detail. The wood flora is dominated by conifers, mainly Araucariaceae. Conifer fossil woods represent 84% of the ...
Fossil legume woods from the Late Miocene, Chiquimil Formation (Santa María Basin), Argentina
(Elsevier Science, 2013-10-24)
The legume fossil record is varied and abundant in the Cenozoic strata, especially throughout the Neogene. In northwestern Argentina there are outcrops of the Santa María Group, including the Miocene and Pliocene continental ...
Conifer fossil woods from the La Meseta Formation (Eocene of Western Antarctica): Evidence of Podocarpaceae-dominated forests
(Elsevier Science, 2013-09-20)
A new collection of 120 fossil wood samples from early Eocene sediments of the La Meseta Formation is studied. Conifers represent 68 % of the total amount of wood samples. The specimens show significant conifer diversity ...
Angiosperm fossil woods from the Upper Cretaceous of Western Antarctica (Santa Marta Formation)
(Academic Press Ltd - Elsevier Science Ltd, 2018-10)
We identified six fossil-species of angiosperms based on fossil woods from two small collections from the Beta Member (lower Campanian) of the Santa Marta Formation on James Ross Island: 1) Paraphyllanthoxylon antarcticum ...
Redescription and reassignment of the fossil wood Menendoxylon piptadiensis from the Pliocene Andalhuala Formation, South America
(Cambridge University Press, 2017-11)
A new study of the holotype of Menendoxylon piptadiensis has revealed that this taxon possesses many diagnostic anatomical features not associated with Leguminoseae-Mimosoideae. In this contribution, it was described again ...
First fossil wood from the northern Pampa (Upper pleistocene), Santa Fe province, Argentina
(Asociación Paleontológica Argentina, 2019-08)
Paleobotany records from the Northern Pampa are very scarce and poorly known. 17 Only a palynological study in Paraná Formation (Upper Miocene) was previously done 18 (Anzótegui and Garralla, 1982, 1986). In this work, a ...
Fossil woods from the Eocene-Oligocene (Río Turbio Formation) of southwestern Patagonia (Santa Cruz province, Argentina)
(Brill Academic Publishers, 2019-06)
Over 80 samples of fossil woods were collected from numerous outcrops of the Río Turbio Formation, southwestern Patagonia. Preservation of the woods is variable and only about half of these samples could be identified to ...
Astroniumxylon, Schinopsixylon, and Parametopioxylon n. gen. fossil woods from upper Cenozoic of Argentina: Taxonomic revision, new taxon and new records
(Paleontological Society, 2020-03)
This paper presents new descriptions of Anacardiaceae fossil woods from the Ituzaingó Formation (late Cenozoic) at the Toma Vieja, Curtiembre, and Arroyo El Espinillo localities, Argentina. We describe eight silicified ...
First record of fossil woods from the Mariño Formation (Miocene), Mendoza, Argentina and their palaeobiogeographical implications
(Taylor & Francis Ltd, 2015-01)
The first Miocene records of silicified fossil woods from the Mariño Formation, Potrerillos area, Andes Precordillera, Mendoza province, Argentina are described. Rhaphithamnoxylon artabeae gen. et sp. nov. is described as ...