Temperate Pollen Genera in the Eocene (Claiborne) Flora, Alabama
- 23 September 1960
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in Science
- Vol. 132 (3430), 808-810
- https://doi.org/10.1126/science.132.3430.808
Abstract
Pollen, spores, hystrichospherids, dinoflagellates, and the fresh-water alga Pediastrum occur in marine clays at the classic Claiborne Bluffs locality, Alabama. The presence of Ephedra pollen provides the first documented Tertiary record of this genus from the southeastern states. The occurrence of several characteristically temperate genera lends support to the idea that a deciduous hardwood forest was present in the Appalachian uplands during the Eocene.This publication has 4 references indexed in Scilit:
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