Abstract
Sassafrasoxylon gottwaldii sp. nov. is a new taxon for fossil wood with
a suite of features diagnostic of Sassafras Nees & Eberm. of the Lauraceae.
The fossil wood described is from Late Cretaceous (Santonian-
Maastrichtian) sediments of the northern Antarctica Peninsula region.
This new species of Sassafrasoxylon Brezinová et Süss resembles the
species of extant
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