Epiphyllous fungi from Miocene deposits of the Bełchatów Lignite Mine (Central Poland)

Abstract

Fossil fungal fructifications were encountered during palynological investigation of the Miocene deposits of the Bełchatów Lignite Mine (Central Poland

Combining molecular and fossil data to infer demographic history of Quercus cerris: insights on European eastern glacial refugia

“…Cerris were found in several mid‐Miocene to Pliocene deposits in Germany, Poland, Slovakia, Alsace, Georgia, Moldavia, Greece and Abkashia (cf. Song et al ., for a review; Teodoridis et al ., ; Worobiec et al ., ; Velitzelos et al ., ). They cannot be attributed to Q. cerris yet, as they belong to various fossil taxa in the Section, including Q. cerresaecarpa Kol., Q. sapperi (Menzel) Mai ex Hummel, Q. microcerrisaecarpa Kol.…”

Three new Miocene fungal palynomorphs from the Brassington Formation, Derbyshire, UK

“…wood from the Bükkábrány fossil forest in Hungary (Erdei et al 2009;Bardet & Pournou 2015;Nikolouli et al 2016) and biomarkers (that may be indicative of fungi) have been extracted from North Alpine Foreland Basin and Lubstów deposit woods (Bechtel et al 2007;2008). Like initial research on the Brassington Formation, palynological studies of these sites have typically been focussed on the pollen and spore content to reconstruct vegetation, with fungal remains either left unidentified or subject to ongoing research (Boulter 1971;Erdei et al 2009;Worobiec 2009;Worobiec et al 2009;Pound & Riding 2016;Worobiec & Worobiec 2017). Continued palynological research, with a focus on identifying fungal remains to modern genera (where possible) rather than form taxa, will elucidate the full diversity and ecology of these Miocene warmer than present forests (Utescher et al 2007;Pound et al 2011).…”

Wetland vegetation from the Miocene deposits of the Bełchatów Lignite Mine (central Poland)

“…Another fossil taxon of legume leaflets from the Neogene deposits of Bełchatów, Dicotylophyllum sp. 1 (Worobiec et al, 2012), probably conspecific with Dicotylophyllum sp. 3 (Worobiec and Szynkiewicz, 2016), differs from Leguminophyllum kvacekii sp.…”

“…They established the age of deposits filling the Kleszczów Graben as Neogene, the main coal seam as late Miocene, and the overburden deposits as late Miocene-Pliocene (Stuchlik et al, 1990). Palaeobotanical investigations of the assemblages of plant macroremains from the Bełchatów Lignite Mine were then continued (Wójcicki and Zastawniak, 1998;Worobiec and Lesiak, 1998;Otto et al, 2001;Worobiec, 2003b;Worobiec and Worobiec, 2005;Worobiec, 2007;Worobiec and Szynkiewicz, 2007;Worobiec et al, 2012;Worobiec, 2014;Worobiec and Szynkiewicz, 2016;. Besides fossil plant remains, fossil insects (Wegierek, 1995), snails (Stworzewicz and Szynkiewicz, 1988;Stworzewicz, 1995), freshwater fishes (Jerzmańska and Hałuszczak, 1986), and mammals (Kowalski, 1993;Rzebik-Kowalska and Kowalski, 2001; Kowalski and Rzebik-Kowalska, 2002) preserved in the Neogene infilling of Kleszczów Graben were investigated.…”