Identification fossil wood Algeria: Araucarian wood?

[derg]

Hello everybody! I need some help to ID a fossil wood from lower creataceous( likely Barremian) of Laghouat, Algeria. From many readings i know that softwood is made of cells named "tracheids" with special pits( bordered pits) and "rays" also with  special cross fiels pits.The main reference, that i dont have , is "IAWA softwood microscopic features" . Infortunately there  is no special study about the fossil trees of this particular area of Algeria.  I took some photos on just traumatic sections ( i can't make "thin sections") using my old monocular microscope (x10 with oculars x5,x10, x15). and my  camera Canon ixus160. I can see  tracheids with "monoseriate and biseriate bordered pits" and many smaller pits are visible in "cross field area" . I think that theses features could match with an "Araucarian fossil wood" but is it really? i hope that some members specially who are familiar with softwood anatomy could help. Thank you.( sorry for my weird english!).

[Miocene_Mason]

Gosh, that preservation is awe-inspiring! I’ve never heard of Algerian fossils (though their existence dosent suprise me) and I am not an expert on woods, but conifers are some of the more prevalent flora in the Cretaceous, so that would make sense to me. A true expert could tell you more definitively, maybe one will lend a hand on this thread.

[GeschWhat]

Wow, I've never seen anything like that - fascinating!

[caldigger]

You sure get some nice close up shots. Very interesting!

[abyssunder]

I'm not a specialist in this particular domain related to the internal structures of fossil tree trunks, but as far as my understanding permits I can see there uniseriate circular to flattened, and biseriate alternate tracheid pits like in the pictures below, although the samples are taken from Permian silicified tree trunks.

 

excerpt from Falcon-Lang, Howard & Kurzawe, Francine & Lucas, Spencer. 2014. Coniferopsid tree trunks preserved in sabkha facies in the Permian (Sakmarian) Community Pit Formation in south-central New Mexico, U.S.A.: Systematics and palaeoecology. Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology. 200: 138–160.