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Fossil wood Sequoioxylon dimyense sp. nov. (Cupressaceae) from the upper cretaceous of Zeya-Bureya basin, Russian Far East

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A new species Sequoioxylon dimyense (Cupressaceae) is described from the Middle Maastrichtian (Upper Cretaceous) deposits of the Zeya-Bureya basin (Russian Far East) based on the fossil wood anatomy. The new species is characterized by combination of anatomical wood characters of the modern representatives of the subfamily Sequoioideae.

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Original Russian Text © M.A. Afonin, 2013, published in Paleontologicheskii Zhurnal, 2013, No. 6, pp. 73–82.

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Afonin, M.A. Fossil wood Sequoioxylon dimyense sp. nov. (Cupressaceae) from the upper cretaceous of Zeya-Bureya basin, Russian Far East. Paleontol. J. 47, 631–640 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1134/S0031030113060026

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