Agathoxylon

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Agathoxylon
Temporal range: Late Carboniferous-Maastrichtian
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Agathoxylon fossil trunks from the Bumi Hills area of Zimbabwe
Scientific classification e
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Division: Pinophyta
Class: Pinopsida
Order: Pinales
Family: Araucariaceae (?)
Genus: †Agathoxylon
Hartig 1848
Type species
†Agathoxylon cordaianum
Hartig 1848
Species

See text

Synonyms
  • Agathoxylon P.Greguss 1952[1]
  • Araucariopsis Caspary 1888
  • Dadoxylon Endlicher 1847
  • Dammaroxylon J.Schultze-Motel 1966
  • Palaeoxylon A.T.Brongniart 1849
  • Peuce Lindley & W.Hutton 1832
  • Platyspiroxylon P.Greguss 1961
  • Simplicioxylon G.Andreánszky 1949

Agathoxylon (previously known as Dadoxylon) is a form genus of araucarian fossil wood, including massive tree trunks. Although identified from the late Palaeozoic to the end of the Mesozoic,[2] Agathoxylon is common from the Carboniferous to Triassic.[3]

Description[]

Agathoxylon were large trees that bore long strap-like leaves and trunks with small, narrow rays.[3] Often the original cellular structure is preserved as a result of silica in solution in the ground water becoming deposited within the wood cells. This mode of fossilization is termed permineralization.

Systematics[]

As a genus, Dadoxylon was poorly defined, and apart from Araucariaceae, has been associated with fossil wood as diverse as Cordaitales,[4] Glossopteridales and Podocarpaceae. Furthermore, it may be the same form genus as Araucarioxylon, hence the usage Dadoxylon (Araucarioxylon).[5] The genus Agathoxylon, classified under the family Araucariaceae,[6] has nomenclatural priority over the genera Araucarioxylon and Dadoxylon.[7][8][9]

Several Dadoxylon species, such as D. brandlingii and D. saxonicum have been identified as .[10] D. arberi and D. sp.1 were synonymised with the glossopterid species and A. natalense, respectively; while D. sp. 2 was transferred to .

Species[]

  • Agathoxylon africanum (Bamford 1999) [=Araucarioxylon africanum]: Daptocephalus Assemblage Zone, Middleton Formation and Normandien Formation to Cynognathus Assemblage Zone, and , Beaufort Group, South Africa,[11] and , Botswana[12]
  • Agathoxylon agathioides (Kräusel & Jain): La Matilde Formation, Argentina
  • Agathoxylon antarcticus (Poole & Cantrill 2001) Pujana et al. 2014 [=A. matildense, Araucarioxylon antarcticus]: Santa Maria Formation, Antarctica[13]
  • Agathoxylon arberi (Seward 1919) [=Dadoxylon arberi]
  • Agathoxylon australe[=Dadoxylon australe]
  • Agathoxylon bougheyi Williams [=Dadoxylon bougheyi]: , Zambia and , Zimbabwe[14]
  • Agathoxylon cordaianum Hartig 1848
  • Agathoxylon desnoyersii (Phillipe 2011) [=Araucarioxylon desnoyersii]
  • Agathoxylon duplicatum (Vogellehner 1965) [=Dadoxylon duplicatum]: Germany[15]
  • Agathoxylon jamudhiense (Maheshwari 1963) [=Dadoxylon jamudhiense]: India[16]
  • Agathoxylon karooensis (Bamford 1999) [=Araucarioxylon karooensis]: Daptocephalus AZ, Middleton and Normandien Formations, South Africa
  • Agathoxylon kellerense (Lucas and Lacey 1984) [=Araucarioxylon kellerense, Dadoxylon kellerense]: Santa Maria Formation, Antarctica
  • Agathoxylon lemonii Tidwell & Thayn 1986: Dakota Formation, Utah
  • Agathoxylon maharashtraensis (Prasad 1982) [=Dadoxylon maharashtraensis]: India[17]
  • Agathoxylon parenchymatosum (Vogellehner 1965) [=Araucarioxylon parenchymatosum, Dadoxylon parenchymatosum]: Forest Sandstone Formation, Botswana[18]
  • Agathoxylon pseudoparenchymatosum (Gothan 1908) Pujana et al. 2014 [=Araucarioxylon chilense, A. kerguelense, A. novaezeelandii, A. pseudoparenchymatosum, Dadoxylon kaiparaense, D. kergulense, D. pseudoparenchymatosum]: Santa Maria Formation, Antarctica
  • Agathoxylon santacruzense Kloster and Gnaedinger 2018: La Matilde Formation, Argentina
  • Agathoxylon santalense (Sah & Jain): La Matilde Formation, Argentina
  • Agathoxylon sclerosum (Walton) Kräusel 1956 [=Dadoxylon sclerosum, Kaokoxylon sclerosum]: Malay Peninsula,[19] Dwyka Group to Molteno Formation, Stormberg Group, South Africa, and Ntawere Formation, Zambia[20]
  • Agathoxylon termieri (Attims) Gnaedinger & Herbst: La Matilde Formation, Argentina
  • Agathoxylon ulmitus Iamandei & Iamandei 2004: Romania[21]
  • Agathoxylon woodworthii (Knowlton 1899) [=Dadoxylon woodworthii]: United States

Distribution[]

Agathoxylon is common in many parts of the world, found in sites of both Gondwana and Laurasia and reported from southern Africa,[22][23] Asia,[24] the Middle East,[25] Europe,[10] South America,[26][27] and North America.[3]

In southern Africa, Agathoxylon is widespread in the Karoo Supergroup.[28] In Zimbabwe, it is especially encountered in the Pebbly Arkose Formation,[22] and also reported frequently from the Angwa Sandstone Formation.[29][30]

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