Claim · model-written summary
Radiometric evidence suggests two Lubstów floras are older and one younger than 13.6 Ma.
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e0“radiometric data suggest that two Lubstów floras are older and one is younger than 13.6 Ma”
t0“carpological floras”
e1“plant remains from the Lubstów”
Title
Miocene carpological floras of the Konin region (Central Poland)
Rafał Kowalski Acta Palaeobotanica 2017. doi:10.1515/acpa-2017-0007
Other claims from this paper (16)
- Observation The diaspores represent 20 listed plant families.
- Observation Forty-two species were first recognized or documented in the region.
- Observation Two genera were described as new taxa.
- Observation Three species were described as new taxa.
- Observation Three morphotypes were described as new taxa.
- Observation Most remains represent azonal vegetation.
- Observation Ericaceous, pine and mixed coniferous bogs, swamp forests and aquatic communities were the widespread vegetation.
- Observation Mesophytic zonal vegetation remains were sparse.
- Mechanism A Sciadopitys raised bog was an important coal biomass source.
- Mechanism Other Lubstów bogs presumably contributed to coal formation.
- Mechanism Wildfire is suggested as a key control on Miocene Konin vegetation.
- Observation Flora and lithostratigraphy indicate a Badenian age of 16.3–12.8 Ma.
- Association Lubstów floras correlated biostratigraphically with the Klettwitz – Salzhausen complex.
- Observation Climate was estimated as humid and warm temperate or subtropical.
- Association Upper Miocene lower Rhenish Basin floras were most similar in composition.
- Observation Tropical, subtropical, Mediterranean and extinct genera represented about 40% in Lubstów.