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Three species of coniferous woods,Araucarioxylon kiiense Ogura,Dadoxylon (Araucarioxylon) japonicum Shimakura andMesembrioxylon chichibuense sp. nov., were first described from the Lower Cretaceous Sebayashi Formation in the Kwanto Mountains.
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Contributions from the Laboratory of Phylogenetic Botany, Chiba University No. 86 Supported by a Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research from the Ministry of Education, Science and Culture No. 56340034.
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Nishida, M., Nishida, H. Petrified plants from the cretaceous of the Kwanto Mountains, Central Japan I. Bot Mag Tokyo 96, 85–91 (1983). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02491093
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