Fossil wood from the Miocene of Wall Canyon Creek, northwestern Nevada

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Permanent URL	http://hdl.lib.byu.edu/1877/2507
Title	Fossil wood from the Miocene of Wall Canyon Creek, northwestern Nevada
BYU Creator	Tidwell, William D.
Creator	Call, Victor B.
Keywords	permineralized wood; Miocene age; High Rock; Nevada
Description/Abstract	Permineralized wood of mid-late Mocene age occurs in local fluviolacustrine deposits of the Hight Rock volcanic sequence in northwestern Nevada. Stem, branch, and root fragments of at least one conifer and several dicot taxa, including Robinia and Quercus, are represented. Wall Canyon Creek lies several miles west and south of Virgin Valley, where material similar in age and preservation, including Picea wolfei Crabtree, and Vitoxylon opalinum Brown have been described. Tidwell has identified a new species of Yucca from a nearby localisty. One Wall Canyon speciment has vorings typical of those produced by larvae of modern longhorn beetles (Coleoptera: Cerambycidae). Other specimens are partially decomposed by fungi or contain branched, septate fungal hyphae. Preservation of fine cellular features of many specimens, as well as fungi, indicate relatively rapid incorporation into the volcanic sediments.
Source	Fossil wood from the Miocene of Wall Canyon Creek, northwestern Nevada (in Botanical Society of America, 1988 annual meeting; abstracts, Baskin,) Victor B. Call and William D. Tidwell American Journal of Botany (June 1988), 75(6, Part 2):104-105
Publisher	Botanical Society of America
Date Original	1988-06
Date Digital	2010-09
Language	English eng en
Publication Type	Abstracts
Type	Text
Format	application/pdf
Owning Institution	Brigham Young University
BYU College	College of Physical and Mathematical Sciences
BYU Department	Geological Sciences
Copyright Status	(c) 1988 Botanical Society of America;
Copyright Use Information	http://www.lib.byu.edu/generic_copyright.html

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