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@ARTICLE{Mann:824957,
author = {Mann, Ulrich and Disko, Ulrich and Hofmann, Diana and van
der Burgh, Johan and Vos, Heinz},
title = {{C}hemotaxonomy of fossil woods from the {L}ower {R}hine
{E}mbayment, {G}ermany},
journal = {International journal of coal geology},
volume = {171},
issn = {0166-5162},
address = {Amsterdam [u.a.]},
publisher = {Elsevier},
reportid = {FZJ-2016-07453},
pages = {37–48},
year = {2017},
abstract = {In the Lower Rhine Embayment (western Germany), the Neogene
lignite bearing sequence is rich in large fossil wood
trunks. Woods collected from sand-filled channels of a
meandering river system (Pliocene: Reuver series) and from
coal seams (Miocene: seams Garzweiler, Frimmersdorf and
Morken) were investigated by Curie-point pyrolysis coupled
with gas chromatography–mass spectrometry in order to
determine their palaeobotanical classification. In
comparison with reference data of individual pyrograms of
modern woods, it became possible to classify 15 fossil wood
trunks chemotaxonomically as follows: eleven samples were
identified as Taxodioxylon sp. by reference Sequoia
sempervirens, three samples were identified as Populoxylon
sp. by reference Populus nigra and one sample was identified
as Sciadopityoxylon sp. by two references of Sciadopitys
verticillata. Microanatomical crosschecks describe the
equivalent samples taxonomically as Taxodioxylon gypsaceum
(GÖPPERT) KRÄUSEL, Taxodioxylon germanicum (GREGUSS) VAN
DER BURGH, Populus nigra L. and Sciadopityoxylon wettsteinii
JURASKY, and confirm the chemical classifications. For both
fossil and reference woods, our relative quantifications of
guaicyl and syringyl moieties are in precise accordance with
discriminations of gymnosperms versus angiosperms. This
means that not only unknown recent woods can
chemotaxonomically accurately be determined by Curie-point
pyrolysis gas chromatography–mass spectrometry and their
equivalent modern wood reference from our data base, but
also the taxonomy of botanically related wood types reaching
back to the geological past up to a Miocene age at least.},
cin = {IBG-3 / IEK-7},
ddc = {550},
cid = {I:(DE-Juel1)IBG-3-20101118 / I:(DE-Juel1)IEK-7-20101013},
pnm = {255 - Terrestrial Systems: From Observation to Prediction
(POF3-255)},
pid = {G:(DE-HGF)POF3-255},
typ = {PUB:(DE-HGF)16},
UT = {WOS:000395967100003},
doi = {10.1016/j.coal.2016.11.014},
url = {https://juser.fz-juelich.de/record/824957},
}