Occurrence of Late Miocene flora from north-east China
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.54991/jop.1996.1265Keywords:
Plant megafossils, Palynology, Late Miocene (China)Abstract
A flora containing both plant microfossils and megafossils has been reported from four placer gold wells in Huanan County, Heilongjiang Province of north-east China. Most of the pollen and megafossil plants are in common. Families Fagaceae, Betulaceae and Pinaceae are abundant in this fossil flora which probably implies a mixed conifer and deciduous broad-leaved forest of warm temperate climate. On the basis of associated vertebrate fossils and correlation with equivalent floras a Late Miocene age has been assigned.