Phytologia Balcanica 31: 109-118, doi: 10.3897/phytolbalcan.31.e177410
Late Oligocene petrified wood remains from alluvium sediments of Radomir Depression, Bulgaria
Stănilă Iamandei‡, Eugenia Iamandei‡, Vladimir S. Bozukov§, Valeri V. Sachanski|¶, Milorad D. Vatsev¶‡ Geological Institute of Romania, Bucharest, Romania§ Institute of Biodiversity and Ecosystem Research, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Sofia, Bulgaria| Geological Institute, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Sofia, Bulgaria¶ University of Mining and Geology, Sofia, Bulgaria
Corresponding author: Stănilă Iamandei ( iamandei@gmail.com ) © Stănilă Iamandei, Eugenia Iamandei, Vladimir S. Bozukov, Valeri V. Sachanski, Milorad D. Vatsev. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY 4.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. Citation:
Iamandei S, Iamandei E, Bozukov VS, Sachanski VV, Vatsev MD (2025) Late Oligocene petrified wood remains from alluvium sediments of Radomir Depression, Bulgaria. Phytologia Balcanica 31: 109-118. https://doi.org/10.3897/phytolbalcan.31.e177410 |  |
Abstract
The paper presents a xylotomic study of some samples of petrified wood collected from alluviums in the Vladimir village (Radomir Depression, Bulgaria). Most likely they were transported from Late Oligocene coal-bearing sediments (Chattian) of Pernik or Bobov Dol areas. The samples have been identified as wood of Taxodioxylon taxodii, a fossil equivalent of the recent species of Taxodium distichum. The latter is a tree which grows presently in restricted areas of South USA, Mexico and Guatemala, but used to be widespread in the fossil records of the European Cenozoic flora as leaf imprints, wood remains and even as an important member in the Tertiary coal forests.
Keywords
Chattian, Paleogene, Radomir Depression, Taxodioxylon, Taxodium, xylotomic study