Fagaceae pollen from the early Cenozoic of West Greenland: revisiting Engler’s and Chaney’s Arcto-Tertiary hypotheses

• Published in: Plant Systematics and Evolution
• Main Authors: Grímsson, Friðgeir, Zetter, Reinhard, Grimm, Guido W., Pedersen, Gunver Krarup, Pedersen, Asger Ken, Denk, Thomas
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: Springer Vienna 2014
• Subjects: Original Article; Arctic; Axel Heiberg Island; Greenland; Heiberg
• Online Access: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4299674; https://doi.org/10.1007/s00606-014-1118-5

In this paper we document Fagaceae pollen from the Eocene of western Greenland. The pollen record suggests a remarkable diversity of the family in the early Cenozoic of Greenland. Extinct Fagaceae pollen types include Eotrigonobalanus, which extends at least back to the Paleocene, and two ancestral...