Agathoxylon
| Agathoxylon Temporal range: Late Carboniferous-Maastrichtian | |
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| Agathoxylon fossil trunks from the Bumi Hills area of Zimbabwe | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes |
| Clade: | Gymnospermae |
| Division: | Pinophyta |
| Class: | Pinopsida |
| Order: | Pinales |
| Genus: | †Agathoxylon Hartig 1848 |
| Type species | |
| †Agathoxylon cordaianum Hartig 1848 | |
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Agathoxylon synonymy
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Agathoxylon (also known by the synonyms Dadoxylon and Araucarioxylon) is a form genus of fossil wood, including massive tree trunks. Although identified from the late Palaeozoic to the end of the Mesozoic, Agathoxylon is common from the Carboniferous to Triassic. Agathoxylon represents the wood of multiple conifer groups, including both Araucariaceae and Cheirolepidiaceae, with late Paleozoic and Triassic forms possibly representing other conifers or other seed plant groups like "pteridosperms".
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