Wood anatomy of the Glyptostrobus europaeus “whole-plant” from a Pliocene fossil forest of Italy

Vassio, Elena; Martinetto, Edoardo; Dolezych, Martina; Burgh, J. van der

doi:10.1016/j.revpalbo.2008.02.006

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“…Charophytes live in shallow (up to 15 m) oligotrophic freshwater environments including lakes (Grambast, 1974;Wray, 1977;Platt & Wright, 1991). The biomarker distributions (Cameron et al, 1984;Papanicolaou et al, 2000Papanicolaou et al, , 2004 of the lignite suggest a large contribution from gymnosperm plants (mainly dominated by Glyptostrobus) that is accustomed to high water table levels within subaerial wetland environments (Velitzelos & Gregor, 1990;Vassio et al, 2008;Velitzelos et al, 2014). Organic-rich sediments are deposited and temporarily preserved under anoxic conditions.…”

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Interaction of an antecedent fluvial system with early normal fault growth: Implications for syn‐rift stratigraphy, western Corinth rift (Greece)

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Continental ‘overfilled’ conditions during rift initiation are conventionally explained as due to low creation of accommodation compared with sediment supply. Alternatively, sediment supply can be relatively high from the onset of rifting due to an antecedent drainage system. The alluvial Lower Group of the western Plio–Pleistocene Corinth rift is used to investigate the interaction of fluvial sedimentation with early rifting. This rift was obliquely superimposed on the Hellenide mountain belt from which it inherited a significant palaeorelief. Detailed sedimentary logging and mapping of the well‐exposed syn‐rift succession document the facies distributions, palaeocurrents and stratigraphic architecture. Magnetostratigraphy and biostratigraphy are used to date and correlate the alluvial succession across and between fault blocks. From 3·2 to 1·8 Ma, a transverse low sinuosity braided river system flowed north/north‐east to east across east–west‐striking active fault blocks (4 to 7 km in width). Deposits evolved downstream from coarse alluvial conglomerates to fine‐grained lacustrine deposits over 15 to 30 km. The length scale of facies belts is much greater than, and thus not directly controlled by, the width of the fault blocks. At its termination, the distributive river system built small, stacked deltas into a shallow lake margin. The presence of a major antecedent drainage system is supported by: (i) a single major sediment entry point; (ii) persistence of a main channel belt axis; (iii) downstream fining at the scale of the rift basin. The zones of maximum subsidence on individual faults are aligned with the persistent fluvial axis, suggesting that sediment supply influenced normal fault growth. Instead of low accommodation rate during the early rift phase, this study proposes that facies progradation can be controlled by continuous and high sediment supply from antecedent rivers.

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Interaction of an antecedent fluvial system with early normal fault growth: Implications for syn‐rift stratigraphy, western Corinth rift (Greece)

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“…Non-permineralized, fossil wood is abundantly available from the Quaternary, including Holocene (Clague et al, 1992;Ferrio et al, 2006;Noshiro et al, 2007;Tipping et al, 2008;Kaiser et al, 2009) and Pleistocene (Burgh, 1974;Leavitt and Long, 1991;Mijarra et al, 2007) sediments, and has also been documented extensively throughout the Tertiary [Pliocene (Martinetto et al, 2007;Vassio et al, 2008;Baldanza et al, 2009), Miocene Erdei et al, 2009), Eocene (Jahren, 2007), Paleocene (Blanchette et al, 1991)] and Cretaceous (Grö cke et al, 1999;Yans et al, 2010). This method is particularly applicable to fossil wood pieces because only relative changes in the d 13 C value are required, thus we may discount any consistent digenetic alteration or juvenility effects (Gagen et al, 2007Esper et al, 2010).…”

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Quantifying seasonal precipitation using high-resolution carbon isotope analyses in evergreen wood

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2011

Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta

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“…Recent studies (Dolezych & van der Burgh 2004) had correlated for the first time Glyptostrobus europaeus with Glyptostroboxylon rudolphii Dolezych & van der Burgh. Numerous information for the "whole-plant" reconstruction of the species providing by the connection between fossil stumps, trunks and twigs of the taxon are also given in Vassio et al (2008) or by an indirect association of different organs within the same site (Teodoridis & Sakala 2008).…”

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Two fossil conifer species from the Neogene of Alonissos Island (Iliodroma, Greece)

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Alonissos (Iliodroma) Island is really famous to palaeobotanists because of the type locality of Glypto strobus europaeus (Brongniart) Unger only. Since the first report of the latter holotype no palaeobotanical work has taken place in Alonissos. This is the first research of the fossiliferous locality, along with new palaeobotanical, palynological and gastropod findings, revealed after 200 years. Among the collected material, a xylitic specimen was studied and identified as Pinuxylon alonissianum Mantzouka & Sakala, sp. nov. The presence of this species points to botanical affinities with sections of Diploxylon Pines (Pinus leiophylla var. chihuahuana (Engelm.) Shaw, P. arizonica Engelm., P. arizonica var. cooperi (C.E.Blanco) Farjon, P. engel mannii Carrière and P. jeffreyi Balf.) especially from Central America (Sierra Madre Occidental and Oriental of Mexico, Arizona, California, Oregon and Sierra Nevada). This is the first research of this kind revealing as the Nearest Relative bioprovince of the studied Greek fossil pine wood Central America and not Himalayas or Asia. Moreover, a palynological study and an analysis of fossil molluscs were carried out for the first time, giving more data regarding the palaeovegetation and palaeoclimate of the area. Finally, the holotype of Glyptostrobus europaeus (Brongniart) Unger, housed in the collections of the Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle, Paris (MNHN), is found, photographed and presented for the first time.

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Wood anatomy of the Glyptostrobus europaeus “whole-plant” from a Pliocene fossil forest of Italy

Cited by 34 publications

References 10 publications

Interaction of an antecedent fluvial system with early normal fault growth: Implications for syn‐rift stratigraphy, western Corinth rift (Greece)

Interaction of an antecedent fluvial system with early normal fault growth: Implications for syn‐rift stratigraphy, western Corinth rift (Greece)

Quantifying seasonal precipitation using high-resolution carbon isotope analyses in evergreen wood

Two fossil conifer species from the Neogene of Alonissos Island (Iliodroma, Greece)

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