Occurrence of Late Miocene flora from north-east China

Liu Gengwu; Li Haomin; Leng Qin

doi:10.54991/jop.1996.1265

Authors

Liu Gengwu Nanjing Institute of Geology and Palaeontology, Academia Sinica, Nanjing 210008, China
Li Haomin Nanjing Institute of Geology and Palaeontology, Academia Sinica, Nanjing 210008, China
Leng Qin Nanjing Institute of Geology and Palaeontology, Academia Sinica, Nanjing 210008, China

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.54991/jop.1996.1265

Keywords:

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.