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Fossil wood of Protocedroxylon primoryense sp. nov. (Coniferales) from the Lower Cretaceous of southern Primorye (Russian Far East)

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New species Protocedroxylon primoryense (Coniferales) is described from the Lower Cretaceous of southern Primorye based on the fossil wood anatomy. Fossil wood of Protocedroxylon was found in the Russian Far East for the first time.

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Original Russian Text © M.A. Afonin, 2012, published in Paleontologicheskii Zhurnal, 2012, No. 1, pp. 102–108.

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Afonin, M.A. Fossil wood of Protocedroxylon primoryense sp. nov. (Coniferales) from the Lower Cretaceous of southern Primorye (Russian Far East). Paleontol. J. 46, 104–110 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1134/S0031030112010029

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