Palaeoenvironment and ecology of the middle Cretaceous Grebenka £ora of northeastern Asia

• Main Authors: Robert A. Spicer A, Anders Ahlberg B, Alexei B. Herman A C, Simon P. Kelley A, Mikhail I. Raikevich D, Peter M. Rees A E
• Other Authors: The Pennsylvania State University CiteSeerX Archives
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: 2000
• Subjects: Cretaceous; northeastern Russia; palaeobotany; palaeoenvironment; palaeoecology; palaeoclimat; Grebenka; North Pole; Ora
• Online Access: http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.521.7099; http://www.geo.arizona.edu/~rees/2002-5.pdf

The Grebenka flora, from the main exposure of the Albian^Cenomanian Krivorechenskaya Formation in northeastern Russia, represents a range of plant communities from pioneer to mature forest that grew close to the mid-Cretaceous North Pole (s 72‡N). The diversity of this flora is dominated by angiospe...