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Plant Syst Evol. 2015;301:809-832. doi: 10.1007/s00606-014-1118-5. Epub 2014 Aug 02.

Fagaceae pollen from the early Cenozoic of West Greenland: revisiting Engler's and Chaney's Arcto-Tertiary hypotheses.

Plant systematics and evolution = Entwicklungsgeschichte und Systematik der Pflanzen

Friðgeir Grímsson, Reinhard Zetter, Guido W Grimm, Gunver Krarup Pedersen, Asger Ken Pedersen, Thomas Denk

Affiliations

  1. Department of Palaeontology, University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria.
  2. Department of Palaeobiology, Swedish Museum of Natural History, Stockholm, Sweden.
  3. Department of Stratigraphy, Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland, Copenhagen, Denmark.
  4. Geological Museum, Natural History Museum of Denmark, Copenhagen, Denmark.

PMID: 25620836 PMCID: PMC4299674 DOI: 10.1007/s00606-014-1118-5

Abstract

In this paper we document Fagaceae pollen from the Eocene of western Greenland. The pollen record suggests a remarkable diversity of the family in the early Cenozoic of Greenland. Extinct Fagaceae pollen types include

Keywords: Arctic; Arcto-Tertiary element; Castaneoideae; Eocene; Eotrigonobalanus; Fagus; Palynology; Quercus

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