Dadoxylon rollei Unger 1859
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Description
A rather large specimen consists of a single fragment of distorted wood (Fig. 9A); however characteristic features are preserved: the files of secondary xylem tracheids (30-50 µm in diameter) are separated by narrow (uniseriate) rays of variable height (2 to 20 cells) (Fig. 9B, D); pitting, restricted to radial walls, shows uni- to biseriate rows of crowded circular bordered pits (Fig. 9C). This anatomy is similar to that of woody trunks of Dadoxylon rollei Unger from the Lower Permian of Germany and from Autun. Marguerier (1971), who investigated trunks from Autun, consider that characteristics of tracheid pittings of such woods suggest affinities with walchian conifers rather than with cordaites.
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Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Scientific name authorship
- Unger
- Kingdom
- Plantae
- Phylum
- Tracheophyta
- Order
- Pinales
- Family
- Araucariaceae
- Genus
- Dadoxylon
- Species
- rollei
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Dadoxylon rollei Unger, 1859 sec. Galtier, Ronchi & Broutin, 2011
References
- MARGUERIER J. 1971. - A propos d'un bois fossile de l'Autunien d'Autun: Dadoxylon rollei Unger, bois presume de coniferophyte. Comptes Rendus du 96 e Congres national des Societes Savantes, Toulouse, Sciences 5: 77 - 97.