Dadoxylon

Dadoxylon
Dadoxylon fossil trunks from the Bumi Hills area of Zimbabwe
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Plantae
Division:	Pinophyta
Class:	Pinopsida
Order:	Pinales
Family:	Araucariaceae (?)
Genus:	†Dadoxylon Endlicher, 1847

Dadoxylon is a form genus of fossil wood, including massive tree trunks. Dadoxlyon is identified from the late Palaeozoic to the end of the Mesozoic, but especially common in the Carboniferous.

Dadoxylon were large trees that bore long strap-like leaves and trunks with small, narrow rays.

Dadoxylon is common in many parts of the world, found in sites of both Gondwanaland and Laurasia and reported from southern Africa, central Asia, eastern Europe,South America and North America.

In southern Africa, Dadoxylon is widespread in the Pebbly Arkose Formation and also reported frequently from the Angwa Sandstone Formation.

Dadoxlyon may be the same form genus as Araucarioxylon, hence the usage Dadoxylon (Araucarioxylon).Araucarioxylon is classified under family Araucariaceae.

Several Dadoxylon species, such as D. brandlingii and D. saxonicum have been identified as Araucarites.

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