ARCTIC Late Tertiary Plant Macrofossils from Localities in Arctic/Subarctic North America: A Review of the Datal

• Main Authors: John V. Matthews, Lynn E. Ovenden
• Other Authors: The Pennsylvania State University CiteSeerX Archives
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: 1990
• Subjects: Key words; Neogene; macroflora; Arctic; Beaufort Formation; Epipremnum; Amcites; Pliocene; Miocene; Meighen Island; bryophytes; Canada; Duck Hawk Bluffs; Ellesmere Island; Banks Island; Subarctic; Tundra; Alaska
• Online Access: http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.484.2508; http://pubs.aina.ucalgary.ca/arctic/Arctic43-4-364.pdf

ABSTRACT. Bryophyte and vascular plant fossils occur at many late Tertiary sites in Alaska and northern Canada. A number of these floras are reviewed here. The oldest flora, possibly of late Early Miocene age, is probably the one from the Mary Sachs gravel at Duck Hawk Bluffs, Banks Island. The youn...