Revision of a late Oligocene florule from the
south-western edge of the Lower Rhine Basin
(western Germany)
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Steinmann-Institut für Geologie, Mineralogie und Paläontologie, Bereich Paläontologie, Rheinische Friedrich-
Wilhelms-Universität Bonn, Nußallee 8, 53115 Bonn, Germany |
Online publication date: 2018-06-19
Publication date: 2018-06-19
Acta Palaeobotanica 2018; 58(1): 49–60
ABSTRACT
The late Oligocene flora from the Nirmer Tunnel at the south-western edge of the Lower Rhine
Basin was first described by Menzel (1913). A revision of Menzel’s original material indicates that most taxa are
from the vegetation of riparian forests (Magnolia burseracea, Ocotea rhenana, Rhodoleia bifollicularis, Eotrigonobalanus
furcinervis, Trigonobalanopsis rhamnoides, Sparganium sp. vel Typha sp.) and mesophytic forests
(Carpolithes dactyliformis, Sapotacites minor). Some specimens cannot be identified, so they are named Dicotylophyllum
div. spp. here. The fossil species Carpolithes dactyliformis (sandstone imprints and endocasts) belongs
to Cornaceae subfamily Mastixioideae and is lectotypified here. The floral assemblage is compared with some
similar floras from the Oligocene of Central Europe.