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New species of the Pinaceae, Abies chavchavadzeae and Piceoxylon ussuriense, are described on the basis of fossil woods from the Pliocene of the Pavlovka lignite field (southern Primorye). For the first time, fossil wood of Abies is reported from the Russian Far East.
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Original Russian Text © N.I. Blokhina, O.V. Bondarenko, 2008, published in Paleontologicheskii Zhurnal, 2008, No. 2, pp. 96–103.
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Blokhina, N.I., Bondarenko, O.V. New species of pinaceous fossil wood from the Pliocene of southern Primorye (Russian Far East). Paleontol. J. 42, 203–210 (2008). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11492-008-2011-x
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