Fossil Tree Trunk Tour

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

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.

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).

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

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.