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A petrified cycad trunk from the Late Cretaceous of the Larsen Basin, Antarctica

 

作者: D.J. Cantrill,  

 

期刊: Alcheringa: An Australasian Journal of Palaeontology  (Taylor Available online 2000)
卷期: Volume 24, issue 4  

页码: 307-318

 

ISSN:0311-5518

 

年代: 2000

 

DOI:10.1080/03115510008619534

 

出版商: Taylor & Francis Group

 

关键词: Cycadales;Antarctica;James Ross Island;Late Cretaceous

 

数据来源: Taylor

 

摘要:

Cetricycas antarcticusgen. et sp. nov. occurs in the Late Coniacian to Campanian Lachman Crags Member of the Santa Marta Formation, Marambio Group, James Ross Island, Antarctica. The petrified trunk comprises a thick pith containing thin and thick walled parenchymous cells, vascular traces surrounded by a thin layer of loose secondary wood. Medullary bundles arise inside the wood zone and pass outwards through multiseriate medullary rays. The trunk anatomy indicates assignment to the Cycadales, and the presence of medullary bundles indicates the affinities with a clade comprisingLepidozamia, Macrozamia, andEncephalartos. This clade is presently confined to Australia and Africa, but fossil representatives extend the geographic range to India, South America and now Antarctica.

 

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