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Taxodioxylon-like charcoal from the Late Miocene of western Bulgaria
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Senckenberg Forschungsinstitut und Naturmuseum Frankfurt, Senckenberganlage 25, 60325 Frankfurt am Main, Germany
 
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Senckenberg Centre for Human Evolution and Palaeoenvironment, Fachbereich Geowissenschaften, Universität Tübingen, Sigwartstraße 10, 72076 Tübingen, Germany
 
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Senckenberg Naturhistorische Sammlungen Dresden, Königsbrücker Landstr. 159, 01109 Dresden, Germany
 
 
Online publication date: 2014-06-17
 
 
Publication date: 2014-06-17
 
 
Acta Palaeobotanica 2014; 54(1): 101-111
 
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We present the first anatomical description and taxonomic interpretation of macroscopic charcoal from the Late Miocene of the Staniantsi Coal Basin in western Bulgaria. The charcoal closely resembles the wood genus Taxodioxylon and thus can most likely be assigned to taxodioid Cupressaceae. This group of plants was part of the peat-forming swamp vegetation during generally drier periods, as shown by previous studies on palynomorphs from the basin. Our report presents the first solid evidence indicating which group of plants and probably which type of vegetation were affected by wildfires during deposition of the peat, although taxodioid Cupressaceae certainly were not the only group of plants affected by these fires; it also represents the first record of taxonomically identifiable palaeobotanical macroremains from the Staniantsi Basin.
 
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