Leaves of Urticales from the Late Cretaceous and Early Tertiary in the Northern hemisphere and their ecology
Ruffle L.
Published on : 01-Jan-2022
DOI : https://dx.doi.org/10.22244/rheedea.1996.06.01.10
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The so called Viburnum leaves of Late Cretaceous seem to belong to Hamamelidales, often associated with Platanaceae. Epidermis containing - sediments are rare in Cretaceous. Thus the closely related Urticales were confused with Rhamnaceae, which gave rise to a wrong ecological interpretation of Cretaceous climate. After Knowlton, Brown and Takhtajan the Ce/tis area was confirmed to be a Tethyan one, while Ulmus remained in the North.
