Journal
PALAEOWORLD
Volume 23, Issue 2, Pages 162-186Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.palwor.2013.11.004
Keywords
Cretaceous; Plant mesofossils; Frenelopsid new species; Miospores; Depositional conditions; Source vegetation
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- MoST of China [2012CB821900]
- Chinese Academy of Sciences Visiting Professorship for Senior International Scientists
- Chinese Academy of Sciences
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Site 549 of the Deep Sea Drilling Project was drilled on the Goban Spur in the Bay of Biscay in 1981. The core recovered from this North Atlantic location included 290 m of Barremian and possibly partly Hauterivian syn-rift deposits overlain unconformably by rocks of early Albian age. The number and variety of spores and pollen grains in the palynomorph assemblages and associated palynofacies through these units together with the presence of some pieces of wood, fragments of foliage, and a few megaspores in the lowest part of the Cretaceous succession suggest that the source area vegetation was, at least initially, relatively close to the site of deposition. Ginkgoalean, bennettitalean, and other gymnosperm groups are represented in the plant mesofossil assemblage but most of the fragments of foliage show cheirolepidiaceous characteristics. Five species belonging to this family have been identified and described. Two of these, Frenelopsis atlantica Zhou and Batten and Frenelopsis? alvinii Zhou and Batten, are new and one is unnamed. The composition of the three informally identified suites of spore and pollen assemblages recovered from 49 samples through the Early Cretaceous succession is consistent with age determinations of parts of it determined previously on the basis of dinoflagellate cysts, foraminifera, nannoplankton, and other fossils. (C) 2013 Elsevier B.V. and Nanjing Institute of Geology and Palaeontology, CAS. All rights reserved.
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