Agathoxylon

Agathoxylon
Agathoxylon fossil trunks from the Bumi Hills area of Zimbabwe
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Gymnospermae
Division: Pinophyta
Class: Pinopsida
Order: Pinales
Genus: †Agathoxylon
Hartig 1848
Type species
†Agathoxylon cordaianum
Hartig 1848
Species

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Synonyms
Agathoxylon synonymy
  • Agathoxylon
    P.Greguss 1952[1]
  • Araucariopsis
    Caspary
  • Araucarioxylon
    Kraus[2]
  • Cordaioxylon
    Felix
  • Cordaixylon
    Grand
  • Cordaites
  • Dadoxylon
    Endlicher
  • Dammaroxylon
    J.Schultze-Motel
  • Palaeoxylon
    A.T.Brongniart
  • Peuce
    Lindley & W.Hutton
  • Platyspiroxylon
    P.Greguss
  • Simplicioxylon
    G.Andreánszky

Agathoxylon (also known by the synonyms Dadoxylon and Araucarioxylon[3]) is a form genus of fossil wood, including massive tree trunks. Although identified from the late Palaeozoic to the end of the Mesozoic,[4] Agathoxylon is common from the Carboniferous to Triassic.[5] Agathoxylon represents the wood of multiple conifer groups, including both Araucariaceae[6] and Cheirolepidiaceae,[7] with late Paleozoic and Triassic forms possibly representing other conifers or other seed plant groups like "pteridosperms".[8]

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  2. ^ Torrey, R. E. (1923). "The comparative anatomy and phylogeny of the Coniferales Part 3: Mesozoic and Tertiary coniferous woods". Proceedings and Transactions of the Royal Society of Canada. 3. Vol. 6. Memoirs of the Boston Society of Natural History. pp. 38–103.
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  4. ^ Giraud, Bernadette (1991). "Les espèces du genre Dadoxylon depuis 1962: Leur répartition et leur évolution du Permien à la fin du Mésozoïque". Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology. 67 (1–2): 13–39. Bibcode:1991RPaPa..67...13G. doi:10.1016/0034-6667(91)90014-T.
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  6. ^ Santos, Ângela Cristine Scaramuzza; Siegloch, Anelise Marta; Guerra-Sommer, Margot; Degani-Schmidt, Isabela; Carvalho, Ismar (December 2021). "Agathoxylon santanensis sp. nov. from the Aptian Crato fossil Lagerstätte, Santana Formation, Araripe Basin, Brazil". Journal of South American Earth Sciences. 112: 103633. Bibcode:2021JSAES.11203633S. doi:10.1016/j.jsames.2021.103633. S2CID 244110901.
  7. ^ Thevenard, Frédéric; Chernomorets, Oleksandra; Moreau, Jean-David; Neraudeau, Didier; Philippe, Marc (2022-08-30). "A review of the Hirmeriellaceae (Cheirolepidiaceae) wood". IAWA Journal. 43 (4): 428–447. doi:10.1163/22941932-bja10099. ISSN 0928-1541. S2CID 252025365.
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