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<mods:title>Conifer wood assemblage dominated by Podocarpaceae, early Eocene of Laguna del Hunco, central Argentinean Patagonia</mods:title>
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<mods:namePart>Pujana, Roberto R.</mods:namePart>
<mods:affiliation>Museo Argentino de Ciencias Naturales, Ciudad de Buenos Aires 1405, Argentina</mods:affiliation>
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<mods:namePart>Wilf, Peter</mods:namePart>
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<mods:namePart>Gandolfo, Maria A.</mods:namePart>
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<taxonomicName LSID="06199D57-C350-55ED-8417-736AABFE0EDD" authority="Pujana, Santillana &amp; Marenssi" class="Pinopsida" family="Podocarpaceae" genus="Protophyllocladoxylon" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF" kingdom="Plantae" lsidName="Protophyllocladoxylon francisiae" order="Pinales" pageId="0" pageNumber="81" phylum="Tracheophyta" rank="species" species="francisiae">Protophyllocladoxylon francisiae Pujana, Santillana &amp; Marenssi</taxonomicName>
<figureCitation captionStart="Figure 2" captionStartId="F2" captionText="Figure 2. Protophyllocladoxylon francisiae, MPEF-Pb 10694: A Growth rings of type D (transverse section, TS) B detail of a growth ring of type D boundary (TS) C opposite (arrowheads) intertracheary radial pits (radial longitudinal section, RLS) D alternate (arrowheads) intertracheary radial pits (RLS) E and F cross-fields (RLS) G wall alteration of the secondary walls of tracheids (tangential longitudinal section, TLS) H uniseriate rays (TLS) I uniseriate rays (TLS). Scale bars: 5 mm (A); 500 μm (B); 50 μm (C, D, E, F, G); 100 μm (H); 200 μm (I)." figureDoi="10.3897/phytokeys.156.54175.figure2" httpUri="https://binary.pensoft.net/fig/444202" pageId="0" pageNumber="81">Figure 2A-F</figureCitation>
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<paragraph pageId="0" pageNumber="81">Studied material.</paragraph>
<paragraph pageId="0" pageNumber="81">MPEF-Pb 10694.</paragraph>
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<paragraph pageId="0" pageNumber="81">Locality.</paragraph>
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LU2 at Laguna del Hunco (Fig.
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, Table
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), Chubut Province, Argentina.
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<paragraph pageId="0" pageNumber="81">Stratigraphic provenance.</paragraph>
<paragraph pageId="0" pageNumber="81">Tufolitas Laguna del Hunco, Huitrera Formation (Ypresian, early Eocene).</paragraph>
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<paragraph pageId="0" pageNumber="81">Description.</paragraph>
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Growth ring boundaries are distinct (Fig.
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), latewood with 1-3 rows of tracheids (Fig.
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). Tracheids are roundish to polygonal as seen in transverse section (Fig.
<figureCitation captionStart="Figure 2" captionStartId="F2" captionText="Figure 2. Protophyllocladoxylon francisiae, MPEF-Pb 10694: A Growth rings of type D (transverse section, TS) B detail of a growth ring of type D boundary (TS) C opposite (arrowheads) intertracheary radial pits (radial longitudinal section, RLS) D alternate (arrowheads) intertracheary radial pits (RLS) E and F cross-fields (RLS) G wall alteration of the secondary walls of tracheids (tangential longitudinal section, TLS) H uniseriate rays (TLS) I uniseriate rays (TLS). Scale bars: 5 mm (A); 500 μm (B); 50 μm (C, D, E, F, G); 100 μm (H); 200 μm (I)." figureDoi="10.3897/phytokeys.156.54175.figure2" httpUri="https://binary.pensoft.net/fig/444202" pageId="0" pageNumber="81">2B</figureCitation>
). Intertracheary pitting in radial walls is mixed, uni- to biseriate, predominantly uniseriate (Si = 1.25), contiguous (Cp = 88.1%), and mostly alternate, rarely opposite, when biseriate (Fig.
<figureCitation captionStart="Figure 2" captionStartId="F2" captionText="Figure 2. Protophyllocladoxylon francisiae, MPEF-Pb 10694: A Growth rings of type D (transverse section, TS) B detail of a growth ring of type D boundary (TS) C opposite (arrowheads) intertracheary radial pits (radial longitudinal section, RLS) D alternate (arrowheads) intertracheary radial pits (RLS) E and F cross-fields (RLS) G wall alteration of the secondary walls of tracheids (tangential longitudinal section, TLS) H uniseriate rays (TLS) I uniseriate rays (TLS). Scale bars: 5 mm (A); 500 μm (B); 50 μm (C, D, E, F, G); 100 μm (H); 200 μm (I)." figureDoi="10.3897/phytokeys.156.54175.figure2" httpUri="https://binary.pensoft.net/fig/444202" pageId="0" pageNumber="81">2C, D</figureCitation>
). Intertracheary pits are hexagonal to rounded in outline; 19.2 (13.8-24.6, SD = 1.9)
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in vertical diameter (Fig.
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). Tracheid tangential diameter is 44.5 (30.3-61.2, SD = 7.0)
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. Cross-fields have 1-4, mean 1.9, pits per cross-field (Fig.
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). Cross-field pits are circular with simple borders (rarely with narrow borders); 14.8 (11.8-18.4, SD = 1.8)
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in vertical diameter (Figs
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,
<figureCitation captionStart="Figure 6" captionStartId="F6" captionText="Figure 6. Schematic drawing of the cross-fields: A Protophyllocladoxylon francisiae B cf. Cupressinoxylon sp. 1 C Phyllocladoxylon antarcticum D cf. Cupressinoxylon sp. 2. Scale bar: 50 μm." figureDoi="10.3897/phytokeys.156.54175.figure6" httpUri="https://binary.pensoft.net/fig/444206" pageId="0" pageNumber="81">6A</figureCitation>
). Horizontal walls of ray parenchyma cells are smooth (Fig.
<figureCitation captionStart="Figure 2" captionStartId="F2" captionText="Figure 2. Protophyllocladoxylon francisiae, MPEF-Pb 10694: A Growth rings of type D (transverse section, TS) B detail of a growth ring of type D boundary (TS) C opposite (arrowheads) intertracheary radial pits (radial longitudinal section, RLS) D alternate (arrowheads) intertracheary radial pits (RLS) E and F cross-fields (RLS) G wall alteration of the secondary walls of tracheids (tangential longitudinal section, TLS) H uniseriate rays (TLS) I uniseriate rays (TLS). Scale bars: 5 mm (A); 500 μm (B); 50 μm (C, D, E, F, G); 100 μm (H); 200 μm (I)." figureDoi="10.3897/phytokeys.156.54175.figure2" httpUri="https://binary.pensoft.net/fig/444202" pageId="0" pageNumber="81">2E</figureCitation>
). Wall alteration (not helical thickening) of the secondary walls of tracheids is observed (Fig.
<figureCitation captionStart="Figure 2" captionStartId="F2" captionText="Figure 2. Protophyllocladoxylon francisiae, MPEF-Pb 10694: A Growth rings of type D (transverse section, TS) B detail of a growth ring of type D boundary (TS) C opposite (arrowheads) intertracheary radial pits (radial longitudinal section, RLS) D alternate (arrowheads) intertracheary radial pits (RLS) E and F cross-fields (RLS) G wall alteration of the secondary walls of tracheids (tangential longitudinal section, TLS) H uniseriate rays (TLS) I uniseriate rays (TLS). Scale bars: 5 mm (A); 500 μm (B); 50 μm (C, D, E, F, G); 100 μm (H); 200 μm (I)." figureDoi="10.3897/phytokeys.156.54175.figure2" httpUri="https://binary.pensoft.net/fig/444202" pageId="0" pageNumber="81">2G</figureCitation>
). Average ray height is medium, 5.6 (1-13, SD = 3.2) cells high, rays are exclusively uniseriate (Fig.
<figureCitation captionStart="Figure 2" captionStartId="F2" captionText="Figure 2. Protophyllocladoxylon francisiae, MPEF-Pb 10694: A Growth rings of type D (transverse section, TS) B detail of a growth ring of type D boundary (TS) C opposite (arrowheads) intertracheary radial pits (radial longitudinal section, RLS) D alternate (arrowheads) intertracheary radial pits (RLS) E and F cross-fields (RLS) G wall alteration of the secondary walls of tracheids (tangential longitudinal section, TLS) H uniseriate rays (TLS) I uniseriate rays (TLS). Scale bars: 5 mm (A); 500 μm (B); 50 μm (C, D, E, F, G); 100 μm (H); 200 μm (I)." figureDoi="10.3897/phytokeys.156.54175.figure2" httpUri="https://binary.pensoft.net/fig/444202" pageId="0" pageNumber="81">2H, I</figureCitation>
) and with a frequency of 3.5 (2-5, SD = 0.9) rays per mm.
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<emphasis bold="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="81">Figure 2.</emphasis>
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<emphasis italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="81">Protophyllocladoxylon francisiae</emphasis>
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, MPEF-Pb 10694:
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Growth rings of type D (transverse section, TS)
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detail of a growth ring of type D boundary (TS)
<emphasis bold="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="81">C</emphasis>
opposite (arrowheads) intertracheary radial pits (radial longitudinal section, RLS)
<emphasis bold="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="81">D</emphasis>
alternate (arrowheads) intertracheary radial pits (RLS)
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and
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cross-fields (RLS)
<emphasis bold="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="81">G</emphasis>
wall alteration of the secondary walls of tracheids (tangential longitudinal section, TLS)
<emphasis bold="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="81">H</emphasis>
uniseriate rays (TLS)
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uniseriate rays (TLS). Scale bars: 5 mm (
<emphasis bold="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="81">A</emphasis>
); 500
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(
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); 50
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(
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); 100
<normalizedToken originalValue="μm">μm</normalizedToken>
(
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); 200
<normalizedToken originalValue="μm">μm</normalizedToken>
(
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).
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<paragraph pageId="0" pageNumber="81">Remarks.</paragraph>
<paragraph pageId="0" pageNumber="81">
This specimen is characterized by its distinct growth ring boundaries, uni- to biseriate mixed intertracheary radial pitting, cross-fields usually with one or two mostly simple pits, relatively wide tracheids, uniseriate rays, and absence of resin-plugs and axial parenchyma. These characters indicate that this wood belongs to the fossil-genus
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<emphasis italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="81">Protophyllocladoxylon</emphasis>
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, because of the mixed radial pitting, simple large pits in the cross-fields, uniseriate rays, and smooth ray cell walls (
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). Conservation of the name
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<emphasis italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="81">Protophyllocladoxylon</emphasis>
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was recently proposed by
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. Among the more than 20 species of the genus,
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<emphasis italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="81">P. francisiae</emphasis>
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is distinguished by its distinct growth ring boundaries, uni- to biseriate and mixed radial pitting, and absence of axial parenchyma and resin plugs (
<bibRefCitation DOI="https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1755-6724.2010.00160.x" author="Zhang, Y" journalOrPublisher="Acta Geologica Sinica" pageId="0" pageNumber="81" pagination="257 - 268" refId="B65" refString="Zhang, Y, Wang, J, Liu, LJ, Li, N, 2010. Protophyllocladoxylon jingyuanense sp. nov., a gymnospermous wood of the Serpukhovian (Late Mississippian) from Gansu, Northwest China. Acta Geologica Sinica 84 (2): 257 - 268, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1755-6724.2010.00160.x" title="Protophyllocladoxylon jingyuanense sp. nov., a gymnospermous wood of the Serpukhovian (Late Mississippian) from Gansu, Northwest China." url="https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1755-6724.2010.00160.x" volume="84" year="2010">Zhang et al. 2010</bibRefCitation>
;
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).
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<emphasis italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="81">Protophyllocladoxylon francisiae</emphasis>
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was first described by
<bibRefCitation DOI="https://doi.org/10.1016/j.revpalbo.2013.09.001" author="Pujana, RR" journalOrPublisher="Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology" pageId="0" pageNumber="81" pagination="122 - 137" refId="B37" refString="Pujana, RR, Santillana, SN, Marenssi, SA, 2014. Conifer fossil woods from the La Meseta Formation (Eocene of Western Antarctica): Evidence of Podocarpaceae -dominated forests. Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology 200: 122 - 137, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.revpalbo.2013.09.001" title="Conifer fossil woods from the La Meseta Formation (Eocene of Western Antarctica): Evidence of Podocarpaceae - dominated forests." url="https://doi.org/10.1016/j.revpalbo.2013.09.001" volume="200" year="2014">Pujana et al. (2014)</bibRefCitation>
from material collected from the Eocene La Meseta Formation, Seymour/Marambio Island, Antarctica, and it was later reported from the Paleocene Cross Valley and Sobral formations that crop out on the same island (
<bibRefCitation DOI="https://doi.org/10.1016/j.revpalbo.2015.07.010" author="Pujana, RR" journalOrPublisher="Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology" pageId="0" pageNumber="81" pagination="56 - 66" refId="B38" refString="Pujana, RR, Marenssi, SA, Santillana, SN, 2015. Fossil woods from the Cross Valley Formation (Paleocene of Western Antarctica): Araucariaceae -dominated forests. Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology 222: 56 - 66, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.revpalbo.2015.07.010" title="Fossil woods from the Cross Valley Formation (Paleocene of Western Antarctica): Araucariaceae - dominated forests." url="https://doi.org/10.1016/j.revpalbo.2015.07.010" volume="222" year="2015">Pujana et al. 2015</bibRefCitation>
;
<bibRefCitation DOI="https://doi.org/10.5710/AMGH.27.07.2017.3095" author="Mirabelli, SL" journalOrPublisher="Ameghiniana" pageId="0" pageNumber="81" pagination="91 - 108" refId="B29" refString="Mirabelli, SL, Pujana, RR, Marenssi, SA, Santillana, SN, 2018. Conifer fossil woods from the Sobral Formation (lower Paleocene, Western Antarctica). Ameghiniana 55 (1): 91 - 108, DOI: https://doi.org/10.5710/AMGH.27.07.2017.3095" title="Conifer fossil woods from the Sobral Formation (lower Paleocene, Western Antarctica)." url="https://doi.org/10.5710/AMGH.27.07.2017.3095" volume="55" year="2018">Mirabelli et al. 2018</bibRefCitation>
). It is also present in the Eocene-Oligocene
<normalizedToken originalValue="Río">Rio</normalizedToken>
Turbio Formation, Santa Cruz Province, southern Patagonia (
<bibRefCitation DOI="https://doi.org/10.1163/22941932-40190253" author="Pujana, RR" journalOrPublisher="IAWA Journal" pageId="0" pageNumber="81" pagination="596 - 626" refId="B36" refString="Pujana, RR, Ruiz, DP, 2019. Fossil woods from the Eocene-Oligocene (Rio Turbio Formation) of southwestern Patagonia (Santa Cruz Province, Argentina). IAWA Journal 40 (3): 596 - 626, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1163/22941932-40190253" title="Fossil woods from the Eocene-Oligocene (Rio Turbio Formation) of southwestern Patagonia (Santa Cruz Province, Argentina)." url="https://doi.org/10.1163/22941932-40190253" volume="40" year="2019">Pujana and Ruiz 2019</bibRefCitation>
). Interestingly, as is the case at Laguna del Hunco, this species is always a minor component of its floras and never dominates the assemblages.
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The fossil-genus
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<emphasis italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="81">Protophyllocladoxylon</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
is quite controversial.
<bibRefCitation DOI="https://doi.org/10.1144/SP434.17" author="Vajda, V" editor="Kear, BP" journalOrPublisher="Geological Society, London, Special Publications 434. The Geological Society of London, London" pageId="0" pageNumber="81" pagination="127 - 147" refId="B52" refString="Vajda, V, Linderson, H, McLoughlin, S, 2016. Disrupted vegetation as a response to Jurassic volcanism in southern Sweden. In: Kear, BP, Lindgren, J, Hurum, JH, Milan, J, Vajda, V, Eds., Mesozoic biotas of Scandinavia and its Arctic territories. Geological Society, London, Special Publications 434. The Geological Society of London, London: 127 - 147, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1144/SP434.17" title="Disrupted vegetation as a response to Jurassic volcanism in southern Sweden." url="https://doi.org/10.1144/SP434.17" volumeTitle="Mesozoic biotas of Scandinavia and its Arctic territories." year="2016">Vajda et al. (2016)</bibRefCitation>
suggested that
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<emphasis italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="81">Protophyllocladoxylon</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
represents various unrelated botanical groups, principally because of its long temporal range from the Paleozoic to the Cenozoic (
<bibRefCitation DOI="https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1755-6724.2010.00160.x" author="Zhang, Y" journalOrPublisher="Acta Geologica Sinica" pageId="0" pageNumber="81" pagination="257 - 268" refId="B65" refString="Zhang, Y, Wang, J, Liu, LJ, Li, N, 2010. Protophyllocladoxylon jingyuanense sp. nov., a gymnospermous wood of the Serpukhovian (Late Mississippian) from Gansu, Northwest China. Acta Geologica Sinica 84 (2): 257 - 268, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1755-6724.2010.00160.x" title="Protophyllocladoxylon jingyuanense sp. nov., a gymnospermous wood of the Serpukhovian (Late Mississippian) from Gansu, Northwest China." url="https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1755-6724.2010.00160.x" volume="84" year="2010">Zhang et al. 2010</bibRefCitation>
; see also
<bibRefCitation DOI="https://doi.org/10.1071/SB18043" author="Andruchow-Colombo, A" journalOrPublisher="Australian Systematic Botany" pageId="0" pageNumber="81" pagination="290 - 309" refId="B1" refString="Andruchow-Colombo, A, Wilf, P, Escapa, IH, 2019. A South American fossil relative of Phyllocladus: Huncocladus laubenfelsii gen. et sp. nov. (Podocarpaceae), from the early Eocene of Laguna del Hunco, Patagonia, Argentina. Australian Systematic Botany 32: 290 - 309, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1071/SB18043" title="A South American fossil relative of Phyllocladus: Huncocladus laubenfelsii gen. et sp. nov. (Podocarpaceae), from the early Eocene of Laguna del Hunco, Patagonia, Argentina." url="https://doi.org/10.1071/SB18043" volume="32" year="2019">Andruchow-Colombo et al. 2019</bibRefCitation>
).
<bibRefCitation DOI="https://doi.org/10.1163/22941932-40190253" author="Pujana, RR" journalOrPublisher="IAWA Journal" pageId="0" pageNumber="81" pagination="596 - 626" refId="B36" refString="Pujana, RR, Ruiz, DP, 2019. Fossil woods from the Eocene-Oligocene (Rio Turbio Formation) of southwestern Patagonia (Santa Cruz Province, Argentina). IAWA Journal 40 (3): 596 - 626, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1163/22941932-40190253" title="Fossil woods from the Eocene-Oligocene (Rio Turbio Formation) of southwestern Patagonia (Santa Cruz Province, Argentina)." url="https://doi.org/10.1163/22941932-40190253" volume="40" year="2019">Pujana and Ruiz (2019)</bibRefCitation>
suggested that
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<emphasis italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="81">P. francisiae</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
, in particular, could represent an extinct member of the
<taxonomicName family="Podocarpaceae" lsidName="" pageId="0" pageNumber="81" rank="family">Podocarpaceae</taxonomicName>
because it has the general wood anatomy of the family but does not conform to any of the extant genera.
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