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Gymnospermous Woods from the Upper Triassic of Northern Chile

Alicia I. Lutz, Alexandra Crisafulli, Rafael Herbst

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The anatomical study of three gymnosperm fossil woods from the Upper Triassic La Coipa, La Ternera and Las Breas formations are presented. Prototaxoxylon intertrappeum is a taxacean wood from India characterized by its tertiary thickenings on their secondary tracheids: Protochamaecyparixylon klitzschii is a cupressaceous wood also present in the Nandanga Formation of South Africa while Protophyllocladoxylon cortaderitaensis is a Protopinaceae member which was already described from the Upper Triassic of Argentina. The present text is the first description of Triassic woods from Chile.

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Key concepts: Gymnosperm, Tracheid, Fossil wood, Paleontology, Geology, Early Triassic, Permian, Biology