Change search
CiteExportLink to record
Permanent link

Direct link
Cite
Citation style
  • apa
  • ieee
  • modern-language-association-8th-edition
  • vancouver
  • Other style
More styles
Language
  • de-DE
  • en-GB
  • en-US
  • fi-FI
  • nn-NO
  • nn-NB
  • sv-SE
  • Other locale
More languages
Output format
  • html
  • text
  • asciidoc
  • rtf
Late Cretaceous (Campanian) leaf and palynoflora from southern Sweden
Institute of Paleobiology, Polish Academy of Sciences.
National Museum, Czech Republic.
Swedish Museum of Natural History, Department of Paleobiology. Department of Geology, Lund University, Sweden.ORCID iD: 0000-0003-2987-5559
2016 (English)In: Geological Society of London Special Publications, ISSN 0305-8719, Vol. 434, p. 207-230Article in journal (Refereed) Published
Abstract [en]

A Late Cretaceous (Campanian) leaf megaflora from the Vomb Trough in southern Skåne, Sweden, has been investigated on the basis of collections held at the Swedish Museum of Natural History. The main plant-bearing locality is Köpinge, but single specimens originate from Högestad, Ingelstorp, Rödmölla, Svenstorps mölla and Tosterup. The fossil flora is dominated by the angiosperm (eudicot) Debeya (Dewalquea) haldemiana (Debey ex de Saporta & Marion) Halamski. Other dicots are cf. Dryophyllum sp., Ettingshausenia sp., Rarytkinia? sp., Dicotylophyllum friesii (Nilsson) comb. nov. and Salicites wahlbergii (Nilsson) Hisinger. Conifers are represented by cf. Aachenia sp. (cone scales), Pagiophyllum sp. and Cyparissidium sp. (leaves). Single poorly preserved specimens of ferns and monocots have also been identified. The terrestrial palynomorphs (the focus herein) clearly link to the megaflora, although with different relative abundances. The fern spore Cyathidites dominates along with the conifer pollen Perinopollenites elatoides and Classopollis. Angiosperm pollen comprise up to 15% of the assemblage, represented by monocolpate, tricolpate and periporate pollen and the extinct Normapolles group. The spores in the kerogen residue show a thermal alteration index (TAI) of 2+. The flora probably represents mainly a coastal lowland Debeya/conifer forest, and is similar to approximately coeval assemblages from analogous palaeo-communities described from eastern Poland, western Ukraine and Westphalia.

Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
London: Geological Society of London, 2016. Vol. 434, p. 207-230
Keywords [en]
Palaeobotany, palynology, Kristianstad Basin, fossil flora, Mesozoic
National Category
Other Earth and Related Environmental Sciences
Research subject
Ecosystems and species history
Identifiers
URN: urn:nbn:se:nrm:diva-2051DOI: doi.org/10.1144/SP434.16OAI: oai:DiVA.org:nrm-2051DiVA, id: diva2:1055054
Projects
2015-04264 Utgör mass-utdöenden en driftkraft för evolutionen? Studier från krita-paleogengränsenSwedish Research Council 349-2007-8705 Lund University Carbon Cycle Centre (LUCCI)
Funder
Swedish Research Council, 2015-04264Swedish Research Council, 349-2007-8705EU, FP7, Seventh Framework Programme, 226506Available from: 2016-12-10 Created: 2016-12-10 Last updated: 2016-12-10

Open Access in DiVA

No full text in DiVA

Other links

Publisher's full texthttp://doi.org/10.1144/SP434.16

Search in DiVA

By author/editor
Vajda, Vivi
By organisation
Department of Paleobiology
Other Earth and Related Environmental Sciences

Search outside of DiVA

GoogleGoogle Scholar

doi
urn-nbn

Altmetric score

doi
urn-nbn
Total: 351 hits
CiteExportLink to record
Permanent link

Direct link
Cite
Citation style
  • apa
  • ieee
  • modern-language-association-8th-edition
  • vancouver
  • Other style
More styles
Language
  • de-DE
  • en-GB
  • en-US
  • fi-FI
  • nn-NO
  • nn-NB
  • sv-SE
  • Other locale
More languages
Output format
  • html
  • text
  • asciidoc
  • rtf