Phoenicites
Phoenicites is a genus of fossil flowering plants belonging to the Angiospermae.[1]
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| Genus: | Phoenicites Brongniart 1828 |
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).[2] and in the Vegroni mountain of Italy.[3]
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
References
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- Museum National d’Histoire Naturelle
- Paleobiology Database
- Staff, Bologna Mineral Show. "Area tematica 2014 - Bologna Mineral Show". www.bolognamineralshow.com (in Italian). Retrieved 2023-06-12.
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