Phoenicites Explained

Phoenicites is a genus of fossil flowering plants belonging to the Angiospermae.^[1]

Fossil record

These fossils have been found in the Miocene of Switzerland, Oligocene of Germany, in the Cretaceous of United States (Age range: 70.6 to 5.332 Ma).^[2] and in the Vegroni mountain of Italy.^[3]

Bibliography

• Fossilium Catalogus. II. Plantae. Pars 54
• A. T. Brongniart. 1828. Prodrome d'une histoire des végétaux fossiles.
• Edward Wilber Berry The Middle and Upper Eocene Floras of Southeastern North America
• Robert W. Read and Leo J. Hickey A Revised Classification of Fossil Palm and Palm-like Leaves Vol. 21, No. 1 (Feb., 1972), pp. 129–137 - International Association for Plant Taxonomy (IAPT) - DOI: 10.2307/1219237
• Emanuil Palamarev, Goran Kitanov, Krassimira Staneva, Vladimir Bozukov Fossil flora from Paleogene sediments in the northern area of the Mesta Graben in the Western Rhodopes. II. Analysis and stratigraphic importance of the flora

Notes and References

1. https://science.mnhn.fr/taxon/species/phoenicites/eocenica Museum National d’Histoire Naturelle
2. http://www.fossilworks.org/cgi-bin/bridge.pl?a=taxonInfo&taxon_no=273521 Paleobiology Database
3. Web site: Staff . Bologna Mineral Show . Area tematica 2014 - Bologna Mineral Show . 2023-06-12 . www.bolognamineralshow.com . it-IT.