Fossil Tree Trunk Tour

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Conifer Trunk

Fossil tree trunk tour

Fossil woods of the genus Protocupressinoxylon belong to conifers, that much can be determined on the basis of wood anatomy.

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Redwood

Fossil tree trunk tour

Redwood trees from the Cupressaceae family (Sequoia, Sequoiadendron and Metasequoia) are the largest plants living today, and even their fossil relatives already reached considerable sizes, as the trunk disc shown here clearly indicates.

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Mahogany Wood

Fossil tree trunk tour

Fossil woods of the genus Carapoxylon of the mahogany family (Melicaceae) are known mainly from the Ottnangian to the Badeian (Miocene) of Central Europe (Northern Alpine Molasse Basin).

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Palm Trunk

Fossil tree trunk tour

Silicified remains of palms occur in Cretaceous and Cenozoic sediments worldwide.

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Chinese Swamp Cypress

Fossil tree trunk tour

Glyptostrobuseuropaeus, a water spruce belonging to the Cupressaceae (cypress family), was widespread in the Cretaceous and Cenozoic of Europe, North America, and Asia and was an important element of swampy lowland forests.

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