Agathoxylon

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Agathoxylon
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Agathoxylon fossil trunks from the Bumi Hills area of Zimbabwe
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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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Description

Agathoxylon were large trees that bore long strap-like leaves and trunks with small, narrow rays. [5] Often the original cellular structure is preserved as a result of silica in solution in the ground water becoming deposited within the wood cells. This mode of fossilization is termed permineralization.

Systematics

As a genus, Dadoxylon was poorly defined, and apart from Araucariaceae, has been associated with fossil wood as diverse as Cordaitales, [9] Glossopteridales and Podocarpaceae. Furthermore, it may be the same form genus as Araucarioxylon , hence the usage Dadoxylon (Araucarioxylon). [10] The genus Agathoxylon, classified under the family Araucariaceae, [11] has nomenclatural priority over the genera Araucarioxylon and Dadoxylon. [12] [13] [8]

Several Dadoxylon species, such as D. brandlingii and D. saxonicum have been identified as Araucarites . [14] D. arberi and D. sp.1 were synonymised with the glossopterid species Australoxylon teixterae and A. natalense, respectively; while D. sp. 2 was transferred to Protophyllocladoxylon .

Species

Distribution

Agathoxylon is common in many parts of the world, found in sites of both Gondwana and Laurasia and reported from southern Africa, [27] [28] Asia, [29] the Middle East, [30] Europe, [14] South America, [31] [3] and North America. [5]

In southern Africa, Agathoxylon is widespread in the Karoo Supergroup. [32] In Zimbabwe, it is especially encountered in the Pebbly Arkose Formation, [27] and also reported frequently from the Angwa Sandstone Formation. [33] [34]

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