NEW GINKGOPHYTES FROM THE UPPER TRIASSIC–LOWER CRETACEOUS OF SPITSBERGEN AND EDGEØYA (SVALBARD, ARCTIC NORWAY):THE HISTORY OF GINKGOALES ON SVALBARD

• Published in: International Journal of Plant Sciences
• Main Authors: Pott, Christian, Van der Burgh, Johan, Van Konijnenburg-van Cittert, Johanna HA
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Naturhistoriska riksmuseet, Enheten för paleobiologi 2016
• Subjects: Arctic; Ginkgo; Ginkgoites; Baiera aquilonia; Sphenobaiera; Carnian; Cretaceous; Cenozoic; Earth and Related Environmental Sciences; Geovetenskap och miljövetenskap; Svalbard; Spitsbergen
• Online Access: http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:nrm:diva-1861; https://doi.org/10.1086/684194

Premise of research. During the ongoing investigation of Upper Triassic–Lower Cretaceous plant macrofossilsfrom Svalbard, Norway, some ginkgoalean leaf fossils were found from Carnian and Aptian deposits ofSpitsbergen and Edgeøya that represent newginkgophyte species. One newspecies is described...