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Titre :	Latest Albian–earliest Cenomanian monocotyledonous leaves from Australia
Auteurs :	Mike Pole, Auteur
Type de document :	Article
Dans :	Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society (129(3) 1999-03-01)
Article en page(s) :	177-186
Résumé :	Two forms of monocotyledon macrofossil are documented from latest Albian–earliest Cenomanian sediments of the Eromanga Basin, central Queensland, Australia. One form is preserved as strap-shaped leaves with cross-linked parallel venation and epidermal features characteristic of monocots. Its affinities are suggested to be with the Areciflorae and it dominated a community lying between a coastal coal swamp and open marine conditions. A second form is found only as thin, dispersed cuticle, with poor detail, but is most likely also a monocot. It dominated a more inland community. These appear to be the currently known, oldest, organically preserved monocotyledonous macrofossils.
En ligne :	https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1095-8339.1999.tb00499.x

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