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

• Published in: ARCTIC
• Main Authors: Matthews, Jr., John V., Ovenden, Lynn E.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: The Arctic Institute of North America 1990
• Subjects: Neogene; macroflora; Arctic; Beaufort Formation; Epipremnum; Aracites; Pliocene; Miocene; Meighen Island; bryophytes; Néogène; macroflore; arctique; formation de Beaufort. Epipremnum; Amcites; pliocène; miocène; île de Meighen. Bryophytes; Canada; Duck Hawk Bluffs; Ellesmere Island; Arctique*; Banks Island; Subarctic; Tundra; Alaska
• Online Access: https://journalhosting.ucalgary.ca/index.php/arctic/article/view/64685

Bryophyte and vascular plant fossils occur at many late Tertiary sites in Alaska and northern Canada. A number of these floras are received 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 youngest are o...