Author – Title 1 The Middle Miocene Wood Flora of Vantage, Washington, USA E.A. Wheeler T.A. Dillhoff IAWA Journal, Supplement 7 Author – Title 1 Wheeler & Dillhoff — Vantage fossil wood flora 1 The Middle Miocene Wood Flora of Vantage, Washington, USA by Elisabeth A. Wheeler Department of Wood and Paper Science, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC 27605-8005, and N.C. Museum of Natural Sciences, Raleigh, NC, USA [
[email protected]] and Thomas A. Dillhoff Evolving Earth Foundation, P.O. Box 2090, Issaquah, WA 98027, and University of Washington Burke Museum, Seattle, WA, USA [
[email protected]] IAWA Journal, Supplement 7 — 2009 Published by the International Association of Wood Anatomists at the Nationaal Herbarium Nederland, The Netherlands 2 IAWA Journal, Supplement 7, 2009 Cover. Top row (from l to r): Ginkgo beckii (Ginkgoaceae), Acer berkhoffii(Sapindaceae), Ulmus miocenica (Ulmaceae). Bottom row (from l to r): Quercus leuca (Fagaceae), Ginkgo beckii (Ginkgoaceae), cf. Sapindus sp. (Sapindaceae) ISSN 0928-1541 ISBN 90-71236-69-3 ISBN 978-90-71268-69-3 NUR 941 E.A. Wheeler and T.A. Dillhoff The Middle Miocene Wood Flora of Vantage, Washington, USA IAWA Journal, Supplement 7 — 2009 Published by the International Association of Wood Anatomists at the Nationaal Herbarium Nederland P.O. Box 9574, 2300 RA Leiden, The Netherlands Wheeler & Dillhoff — Vantage fossil wood flora 3 Contents Summary ................................................................................................................ 4 Introduction