Phoenicites
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Fossil of Phoenicites from Italy
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Phoenicites

Brongniart 1828

Phoenicites is a genus of fossil flowering plants belonging to the Angiospermae.[1]

Fossil record

Fossil from the Vegroni mountain (collection of the Giovanni Capellini Geological Museum, in Italy

These fossils have been found in the Miocene of Switzerland, Oligocene of Germany, in the Cretaceous of United States (Age range: 70.6 to 5.332 Ma).[2] and in the Vegroni mountain of Italy.[3]

Bibliography

References

  1. Museum National d’Histoire Naturelle
  2. Paleobiology Database
  3. Staff, Bologna Mineral Show. "Area tematica 2014 - Bologna Mineral Show". www.bolognamineralshow.com (in Italian). Retrieved 2023-06-12.


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