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A new species, Chadronoxylon sakhalinensis sp. nov. (Angiospermae, Dicotyledones), from the Upper Cretaceous of Sakhalin (Russian Far East) is described based on the anatomical characters of fossil wood. The fossil wood of Chadronoxylon is found in Russia for the first time.
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Original Russian Text © M.A. Afonin, 2017, published in Paleontologicheskii Zhurnal, 2017, No. 5, pp. 98–102.
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Afonin, M.A. First record of Chadronoxylon fossil wood (Angiospermae, Dicotyledones) from Russia. Paleontol. J. 51, 556–561 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1134/S0031030117050021
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