Schinopsixylon herbstii A.I. Lutz (1979:42)
Taxonomy & Nomenclature
Conservation Status
Extinct
Last record: Late Pleistocene (Brea et al., 2010; Franco et al., 2020; Brea et al., 2025)
Distribution & Habitat
Argentina
Anatomy & Morphology
Biology & Ecology
Hypodigm
Media
References
Original scientific description:
Lutz, Alicia I. (1979). Maderas de angiospermas (Anacardiaceae y Leguminosae) del Plioceno de la provincia de Entre Ríos, Argentina. Facena 3: 39-63.
Other references:
Brea, Mariana, Zucol, Alejandro F., Franco, María Jimena, Ramos R. Soledad, Patterer, Noelia I., Moya, Eliana, Passeggi, Esteban, Frezzia, Sebastián A. and Martinez, Camila Martinez. (2025). La paleobotánica en el sur de la región del Litoral argentino: historia, desarrollo y estado actual de su conocimiento / Palaeobotany in the southern Argentine Littoral region: history, development and current state of knowledge. Bol. Soc. Argent. Bot. 60(4): 405-433. https://doi.org/10.31055/1851.2372.v60.n4.49487
Brea, Mariana, Zucol, Alejandro F. and Patterer, Noelia. (2010). Fossil woods from late Pleistocene sediments from El Palmar Formation, Uruguay Basin, Eastern Argentina. Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology 163: 35-51. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.revpalbo.2010.09.001
IFPNI (International Fossil Plant Names Index). (2026a). Schinopsixylon herbstii. In: International Fossil Plant Names Index. Available at: https://ifpni.org/ [Accessed 6 September 2026]
IFPNI (International Fossil Plant Names Index). (2026b). Schinopsixylon heckii. In: International Fossil Plant Names Index. Available at: https://ifpni.org/ [Accessed 29 August 2026]
Franco, M. Jimena, Moya, Eliana, Brea, Mariana and Martínez, Camila Martínez. (2020). Astroniumxylon, Schinopsixylon, and Parametopioxylon n. gen. fossil woods from upper Cenozoic of Argentina: taxonomic revision, new taxon and new records. Journal of Paleontology 94(2): 185-201. https://doi.org/10.1017/jpa.2019.97
Pujana, Roberto R. (2022). Fossil woods from Argentina (1884–2021). Revista del Museo Argentino de Ciencias Naturales 24(2): 217-240. [Appendix (.xls)]