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Thirteen silicified fossil woods were collected from the Cretaceous deposits of Haenam Basin and islands of Gwanmae and Byeongpung, Jeollanam-do as well as from the Cretaceous Dadaepo Formation, Busan, Korea. Anatomical features of all of these specimens showed that they were coniferous woods. On the basis of the detailed anatomical features they were identified asDadoxylon byeongpungense sp. nov.,Cupressinoxylon uhangriense sp. nov.,Taxodioxylon cf.nihongii Nishida et H. Nishida,Taxodioxylon albertense (Penhallow) Shimakura, andMesembrioxylon sp. All of them, exceptMesembrioxylon, are described for the first time from the Korean Peninsula. It should be noted that no dicotyledonous wood has been found from this study. Generally the sampled horizons are considered as Upper Cretaceous with dinosaur footprint fossils. In Japan, the Upper Cretaceous sediments bear abundant dicotyledonous fossils. Therefore further studies should be needed to clarify the age of these horizons and the vegetation in the ancient world with dinosaur.
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Kim, K., Jeong, E.K., Suzuki, M. et al. Some confierous fossil woods from the Cretaceous of Korea. Geosci J 6, 131–140 (2002). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF03028284
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