Palaeobotanical redux: revisiting the age of the angiosperms

PS Herendeen, EM Friis, KR Pedersen, PR Crane - Nature plants, 2017 - nature.com
Angiosperms (flowering plants) are the most diverse of all major lineages of land plants and
the dominant autotrophs in most terrestrial ecosystems. Their evolutionary and ecological …

New South American record of the Cretaceous–Paleogene boundary interval (La Colonia Formation, Patagonia, Argentina)

WC Clyde, JM Krause, F De Benedetti, J Ramezani… - Cretaceous …, 2021 - Elsevier
Abstract The La Colonia Formation is an Upper Cretaceous to Paleogene shallow marine
sedimentary unit in Chubut Province (Patagonia), Argentina that preserves important …

The Early Cretaceous mesofossil flora of Torres Vedras (NE of Forte da Forca), Portugal: a palaeofloristic analysis of an early angiosperm community

EM Friis, PR Crane, KR Pedersen - Fossil Imprint, 2019 - pure.au.dk
Abstract An Early Cretaceous mesofossil flora is described from the lower part of the
Almargem Formation (late Barremian-early Aptian) from Torres Vedras (NE of Forte da …

Did the Benue Trough connect the Gulf of Guinea with the Tethys Ocean in the Cenomanian? New evidence from the palynostratigraphy of the Yola Sub-basin

MB Usman, AT Brasier, DW Jolley, U Abubakar… - Cretaceous …, 2021 - Elsevier
Abstract The Yola Sub-basin represents the lower portion of the bifurcated Upper Benue
Trough, whose origin has been linked to the opening of the Atlantic Ocean in the Mesozoic …

Paisia, an Early Cretaceous eudicot angiosperm flower with pantoporate pollen from Portugal

EM Friis, MM Mendes, KR Pedersen - Grana, 2018 - Taylor & Francis
A new fossil angiosperm, Paisia pantoporata, is described from the Early Cretaceous
Catefica mesofossil flora, Portugal, based on coalified floral buds, flowers and isolated floral …

Fossil flora of Egypt

WE El-Saadawi, S Nour-El-Deen, ZM El-Noamani… - The geology of …, 2020 - Springer
This work summarizes the results of two centuries of laborious investigations of the plant
fossil remains in Egypt. As far as possible, emphasis was placed on fossil remains as …

The history of palynology in Egypt

A Soliman, H El Atfy - Palynology, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
This contribution marks the achievements made in the past decades by a group of mainly
Egyptian palynologists. The data generated covers a long-time span from the Precambrian …

Cretaceous algal palynomorphs from northeast Sinai, Egypt: Systematics and paleoenvironmental implications

ZM El-Noamani, A Saleh - Egyptian Journal of Botany, 2018 - ejbo.journals.ekb.eg
THE microalgal palynomorphs considered one of the main categories of non-pollen
palynomorphs recognized in palynological slides which characterized by their potential …

The magnificent seven: the stratigraphically most important mid-Cretaceous terrestrial palynofloral species in the north Western Desert, Egypt

MK Zobaa, FE Oboh-Ikuenobe - Journal of Iberian Geology, 2018 - Springer
Introduction This paper presents the essential taxonomic information needed to easily
identify seven of the stratigraphically most important terrestrial palynofloral species in dating …

Reconstruction of paleovegetation and paleoecology from the Early Cretaceous sporomorphs of Bougaz-1 well, northeast Sinai, Egypt

ZM El-Noamani - Egyptian Journal of Botany, 2018 - journals.ekb.eg
A WELL-preserved, diverse sporomorph assemblage of 62 species belonging to 39 genera
has been recorded in two Cretaceous (Aptian/Albian) samples recovered from depths …