Araucaria mirabilis
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Araucaria mirabilis is an extinct species of coniferous tree from Patagonia, Argentina. It belongs to the genus Araucaria.
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Araucaria mirabilis | |
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Fossilized branch and cones of Araucaria mirabilis from Cerro Cuadrado, Patagonia, Argentina | |
Petrified Araucaria mirabilis cones from the Paläontologisches Museum München | |
Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Plantae |
Clade: | Tracheophytes |
Clade: | Gymnospermae |
Division: | Pinophyta |
Class: | Pinopsida |
Order: | Araucariales |
Family: | Araucariaceae |
Genus: | Araucaria |
Species: | †A. mirabilis |
Binomial name | |
†Araucaria mirabilis (Spegazzini) Windhausen (1924) | |
Location of the Cerro Cuadrado Petrified Forest in Patagonia, Argentina | |
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A. mirabilis are known from large amounts of very well preserved silicified wood and cones from the Cerro Cuadrado Petrified Forest, including tree trunks that reached 100 m (330 ft) in height in life. The site was buried by a volcanic eruption during the Middle Jurassic, approximately 160 million years ago.