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REVIEW OF PALAEOBOTANY AND PALYNOLOGY
Volume 112, Issue 4, Pages 297-336Publisher
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DOI: 10.1016/S0034-6667(00)00007-5
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Aachen Formation; angiosperms; fossil wood; gymnosperms; Late Cretaceous; western Europe
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Silicified fossil woods from the Late Cretaceous (Santonian) Aachen Formation of northeast Belgium, southernmost Netherlands and adjacent Germany were investigated. Gymnosperms dominate this assemblage: Taxodioxylon gypsaceum, T. cf. gypsaceum, T. cf. albertense (all Taxodiaceae), Dammaroxylon aachenense sp, nov. (Araucariaceae), Pinuxylon sp. (Pinaceae), and Scalaroxylon sp. (Cycad or Cycadeoid). Angiosperms are minor constituents: Nyssoxylon sp. (Nyssaceae?, Cornaceae?), Mastixioxylon symplocoides sp. nov. (Mastixiaceae?, Symplocaceae?), Plataninium decipiens (Platanaceae) and Paraphyllanthoxylon cf. marylandense (Anacardiaceae?, Burseraceae?, Lauraceae?). The composition of this assemblage and the anatomy of the woods indicate a seasonal and humid warm-temperate to subtropical climate. (C) 2000 Elsevier Science B.V. All rights reserved.
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