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Xenoxylon latiporosum is a fossil conifer, first described as Pinites latiporosus in 1868 by Carl Eduard Cramer, but this wood fossil species was transferred in 1905 to the newly described extinct plant fossil genus, Xenoxylon, by Walther Gothan. It is thought to be a conifer (in the class Pinopsida).
The Cretaceous fossil wood, Xenoxylon, is known from China, Japan, South Korea, Japan, Manchuria, Siberia, and many other northern hemisphere sites and corresponds to no modern plant. (Gothan says "The structure of this wood among the living and fossil gymnosperm woods is without analogue".)
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