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Araucarioxylon
| Description | Araucarioxylon arizonicum is an extinct species of conifer that is the state fossil of Arizona. The species is known from massive tree trunks that weather out of the Chinle Formation in desert badlands of northern Arizona and adjacent New Mexico and Chemnitz petrified forest in Chemnitz, Germany, most notably in the 378.51 square kilometres (93,530 acres) Petrified Forest National Park. There, these trunks are locally so abundant that they have been used as building materials. From Wikipedia article at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Araucarioxylon, which is released under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share-Alike License 3.0. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Taxonomy (GBIF) | Life : Plantae : Tracheophyta : Pinopsida : Pinales : Araucariaceae : Araucarioxylon | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Taxonomy (PBDB) | Life : Plantae : Pinophyta : Pinopsida : Pinales : Araucariaceae : Araucarioxylon | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Taxonomic Status (GBIF) | accepted | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Scientific Name | Araucarioxylon Knowlton, 1888 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Taxon Size (PBDB) | 1 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| First Recorded Appearance | 359 - 347 Ma Paleozoic | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Primary Reference (PBDB) | R. E. Kirby. 1991. A vertebrate fauna from the Upper Triassic Owl Rock Member of the Chinle Formation in Northern Arizona, Northern Arizona University. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Wikipedia | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Araucarioxylon |
Fossil Distribution
Subtaxa
| Name | Status | Common Name(s) | Fossil Occurrences | Oldest | Youngest |
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| Araucarioxylon arizonicum species | accepted (GBIF) | No associated record in PBDB | |||
| Araucarioxylon colanii species | accepted (GBIF) | No associated record in PBDB | |||
| Araucarioxylon hoppertonae species | accepted (GBIF) | No associated record in PBDB | |||
| Araucarioxylon paratrungphanense species | accepted (GBIF) | No associated record in PBDB | |||
| Araucarioxylon saravanensis species | accepted (GBIF) | No associated record in PBDB | |||
| Araucarioxylon traumaticum species | accepted (GBIF) | No associated record in PBDB | |||
| Araucarioxylon trungphanense species | accepted (GBIF) | No associated record in PBDB | |||
| Araucarioxylon vietnamense species | accepted (GBIF) | No associated record in PBDB | |||
| Araucarioxylon virginianum species | accepted (GBIF) | No associated record in PBDB | |||
| Araucarioxylon woodworthi species | accepted (GBIF) | No associated record in PBDB | |||
| Araucarioxylon wyomingense species | accepted (GBIF) | No associated record in PBDB | |||
Synonymy List
| Year | Name and Author |
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| 1870 | Araucarioxylon Kraus |
| 1991 | Araucarioxylon Kirby |
References
| Kirby R. E. (1991) A vertebrate fauna from the Upper Triassic Owl Rock Member of the Chinle Formation in Northern Arizona, Northern Arizona University, 1-476 |
Data courtesy of: PBDB: The Paleobiology Database, Creative Commons CC-BY licenced. , GBIF: the Global Biodiversity Information Facility, various licences, iDigBio, various licences, and EOL: The Encyclopedia of Life (Open Data Public Domain). Because fossils are made of minerals too!
Apache County, Arizona, USA