Contributions to the late neogene and early quaternary floral history of the Mediterranean

Combined LM and SEM study of the Middle Miocene (Sarmatian) palynoflora from the Lavanttal Basin, Austria: Part II. Pinophyta (Cupressaceae, Pinaceae and Sciadopityaceae)

“…It is uncertain how well the ecological requirements of the extant species can be used to infer the palaeoecology of the fossil taxa. Several Cathaya macrofossils have been found in lowland sedimentary successions (Schneider, 1981;Mai & Walther, 1988;Gregor, 1990;Mai, 1994Mai, , 1999Walther, 1999;Dolezych & Schneider, 2006;Denk et al, 2011) suggesting that the taxon grew in lowland or foothill forests, often close to swamps, lakes or flooded areas. Also, the generally frequent occurrence of fossil Cathaya pollen in various lowland sediments suggests a wider ecological tolerance (climate, altitude, and substrate) than at present.…”

First occurrence of mastixioid (Cornaceae) fossil in India and its biogeographic implications

“…They have excellent fossil records from the uppermost Cretaceous to late Miocene of Europe (Chandler, 1926(Chandler, , 1961(Chandler, , 1962Reid and Chandler, 1933;Kirchheimer, 1934Kirchheimer, , 1935Kirchheimer, , 1936aKirchheimer, ,b, 1938aKirchheimer, ,b, 1940Kirchheimer, , 1941Kirchheimer, , 1943aKirchheimer, ,b, 1957Mai, 1964;Palamarev and Petkova, 1966;Mai, 1970;Czeczott and Skirgiello, 1975a,b;Holý, 1977;Mai and Walther, 1978;Gregor, 1978Gregor, , 1990Velitzelos and Gregor, 1982;Holý, 1984;Knobloch and Mai, 1986;Mai, 1987;Mai and Walther, 1991;Mai, 1993Mai, , 1995Mai, , 2001Czaja, 2003;Ševčik et al, 2007;Martinetto, 2011;Holý et al, 2012) and Eocene sediments of North America (Potbury, 1935;Scott, 1954;MacGinitie, 1969;Wolfe, 1977;Wehr, 1995;Manchester, 1994;Tiffney and Haggard, 1996;Stockey et al, 1998). Most of these…”

“…1962Reid and Chandler, 1933); Oligocene sediments of Germany Walther, 1978, 1991), Czech Republic (Holý, 1984), Bulgaria (Palamarev and Petkova, 1966), and Italy (Martinetto, 2011) as well as in Miocene sediments of Germany (e.g. Kirchheimer, 1957;Mai, 1964Mai, , 1970Mai, , 1993Mai, , 1995Mai, , 2001Czaja, 2003), Poland (Czeczott and Skirgiello, 1975a, b), southwestern France (Gregor, 1990), Mediterranean area (Greece) (Velitzelos and Gregor, 1982) and the…”

Pliocene and Early Pleistocene carpological records of terrestrial plants from the southern border of the Po Plain (northern Italy)

“…The Pliocene and Early Pleistocene (Zanclean-Calabrian) continental palaeoflora of northern Italy,35 as well as its ecological and climatic interpretation, has been documented by several papers 36 dealing with rather long pollen sequences (Lona and Bertoldi, 1973;Ravazzi and Rossignol Strick, 37 1995; Bertini, 2001 and and by macrofloral records referred to more limited 38 chronostratigraphic intervals (Gregor, 1990;Mai, 1995;Basilici et al, 1997;Martinetto, 1995, 39 6 The samples are located in stratigraphic logs (Fig. 3) that represent a portion of longer 118 stratigraphic successions.…”

“…3). In the Calabrian portion (Stirone-Laurano in 160 Martinetto, 1999), two samples were collected in layers rich of terrestrial plant remains ( These samples correspond, respectively, to beds S3 and S7-8 of Gregor (1986Gregor ( , 1990, from which 166 this author reported abundant carpological remains, not yet subjected to a dateiled taxonomic 167 treatment. Mai (1994) reported a cone of Picea florschuetzii Van der Hammen from 168 "Millepioppi", the locality where Gregor's bed S3 (our LA1) was in outcrop during the 1980s.…”