Jump to content

Phoenicites

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Phoenicites
Temporal range: Cretaceous - Miocene
Fossil of Phoenicites from Italy
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
(unranked):
(unranked):
(unranked):
Order:
Family:
Genus:
Phoenicites

Brongniart 1828

Phoenicites is a morphogenus for palm tree leaf fossils with a pinnate veination.[1][2]

Fossil record

[edit]
Fossil from the Vegroni mountain (collection of the Giovanni Capellini Geological Museum, in Italy

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.[citation needed]

References

[edit]
  1. ^ Museum National d’Histoire Naturelle
  2. ^ 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: Article 104641. Bibcode:2022RPaPa.30104641G. doi:10.1016/j.revpalbo.2022.104641. S2CID 247343236.
  3. ^ Paleobiology Database

Bibliography

[edit]
[edit]