Phoenicites
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| Genus: | Phoenicites Brongniart 1828
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Phoenicites is a morphogenus for palm tree leaf fossils with a pinnate veination.[1][2]
Fossil record
These fossils have been found in the Miocene of Switzerland, Oligocene of Germany, in the Cretaceous of United States (Age range: 70.6 to 5.332 Ma).[3] and in the Vegroni mountain of Italy.
References
- ^ Museum National d’Histoire Naturelle
- ^ Greenwood, D. R.; Conran, J. G.; West, C. K. (2022). "Palm fronds from western Canada are the northernmost palms from the Late Cretaceous of North America and may include the oldest Arecaceae". Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology. 301 104641. Bibcode:2022RPaPa.30104641G. doi:10.1016/j.revpalbo.2022.104641. S2CID 247343236.
- ^ Paleobiology Database
Bibliography
- Fossilium Catalogus. II. Plantae. Pars 54
- A. T. Brongniart. 1828. Prodrome d'une histoire des végétaux fossiles.
- Edward Wilber Berry The Middle and Upper Eocene Floras of Southeastern North America
- Robert W. Read and Leo J. Hickey A Revised Classification of Fossil Palm and Palm-like Leaves Vol. 21, No. 1 (Feb., 1972), pp. 129–137 - International Association for Plant Taxonomy (IAPT) - DOI: 10.2307/1219237
- Emanuil Palamarev, Goran Kitanov, Krassimira Staneva, Vladimir Bozukov Fossil flora from Paleogene sediments in the northern area of the Mesta Graben in the Western Rhodopes. II. Analysis and stratigraphic importance of the flora
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