Ecpagloxylon mathiesenii gen. nov et sp nov., a Jurassic wood from Greenland with several primitive angiosperm features

• Published in: Plant Systematics and Evolution
• Main Authors: Philippe, Marc, Cuny, Gilles, Bashforth, Arden
• Other Authors: PaleoEnvironnements et PaleobioSphere (PEPS), Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1 (UCBL), Université de Lyon-Université de Lyon-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Geological Museum Copenhagen, Natural History Museum of Denmark, Faculty of Science Copenhagen, University of Copenhagen = Københavns Universitet (UCPH)-University of Copenhagen = Københavns Universitet (UCPH)-Faculty of Science Copenhagen, University of Copenhagen = Københavns Universitet (UCPH)-University of Copenhagen = Københavns Universitet (UCPH), Department of Earth Sciences Halifax, Dalhousie University Halifax, Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada, Dalhousie University, Carlsberg Foundation : 1927, DK-TAF-2290
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: HAL CCSD 2010
• Subjects: Fossil wood; Plant anatomy; Jurassic; Angiosperms; Evolution; [SDU.STU]Sciences of the Universe [physics]/Earth Sciences; Arctic; Greenland; Jameson Land
• Online Access: https://insu.hal.science/insu-00672112; https://doi.org/10.1007/s00606-010-0308-z

International audience Fossil wood specimens from the late Early-early Middle Jurassic of Jameson Land, Eastern Greenland, have several unexpected features: tracheids of irregular size and shape, thinly pitted ray cell walls, heterogeneous rays, partially scalariform radial pitting, both areolate an...