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Inventory and review of the Mio–Pleistocene São Jorge flora (Madeira Island, Portugal): palaeoecological and biogeographical implications

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dc.contributor.authorGóis-Marques, Carlos A.
dc.contributor.authorMadeira, José
dc.contributor.authorSequeira, Miguel Menezes de
dc.date.accessioned2022-03-28T14:38:59Z
dc.date.available2022-03-28T14:38:59Z
dc.date.issued2017
dc.description.abstractThe occurrence of plant fossils on Madeira Island has been known since the mid-nineteenth century. Charles Lyell and George Hartung discovered a leaf bed rich in Lauraceae and fern fossils at S~ao Jorge in 1854. The determinations were controversial but a full review was never performed. Here we propose possible geological settings for the fossiliferous outcrop, and present an inventory and a systematic review of the surviving specimens of the S~ao Jorge macroflora. The S~ao Jorge leaf bed no longer outcrops due to a landslide in 1865. It was possible to establish the two alternative volcano stratigraphical settings in the sedimentary intercalations from the Middle Volcanic Complex, ranging in age from 7 to 1.8 Ma. The descriptions of Heer (1857), Bunbury (1859) and Hartung & Mayer (1864) are reviewed based on 82 surviving specimens. From the initial 37 taxa, we recognize only 20: Osmunda sp., Pteridium aquilinum, Asplenium cf. onopteris, aff. Asplenium, cf. Polystichum, cf. Davallia, Woodwardia radicans, Filicopsida gen. et sp. indet. 1 and 2, Ocotea foetens, Salix sp., Erica arborea, cf. Vaccinium, Rubus sp, cf. Myrtus, Magnoliopsida gen. et sp. indet. 1 to 3, Liliopsida gen. et sp. indet. 1. Magnoliopsida gen. et sp. indet. 4 is based on one previously undescribed flower or fruit. The floristic composition of the S~ao Jorge fossils resembles the current floristic association of temperate stink laurel (Ocotea foetens) forest, suggesting a warm and humid palaeoclimate and indicating that laurel forests were present in Macaronesia at least since the Gelasian, a time when the palaeotropical geofloral elements were almost extinct in Europe.pt_PT
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dc.identifier.citationGóis-Marques, C. A., Madeira, J., & Sequeira, M. M. (2018). Inventory and review of the Mio–Pleistocene São Jorge flora (Madeira Island, Portugal): palaeoecological and biogeographical implications. Journal of Systematic Palaeontology, 16(2), 159-177. https://doi.org/10.1080/14772019.2017.1282991pt_PT
dc.identifier.doi10.1080/14772019.2017.1282991pt_PT
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10400.13/4191
dc.language.isoengpt_PT
dc.peerreviewedyespt_PT
dc.publisherNatural History Museumpt_PT
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/pt_PT
dc.subjectMacaronesiapt_PT
dc.subjectMadeira Island (Portugal)pt_PT
dc.subjectSão Jorge, Açores (Portugal)pt_PT
dc.subjectHistorical collectionspt_PT
dc.subjectLeaf macrofossilspt_PT
dc.subjectLaurel forestpt_PT
dc.subject.pt_PT
dc.subjectFaculdade de Ciências da Vidapt_PT
dc.titleInventory and review of the Mio–Pleistocene São Jorge flora (Madeira Island, Portugal): palaeoecological and biogeographical implicationspt_PT
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oaire.citation.endPage177pt_PT
oaire.citation.issue2pt_PT
oaire.citation.startPage159pt_PT
oaire.citation.titleJournal of Systematic Palaeontologypt_PT
oaire.citation.volume16pt_PT
person.familyNameGóis-Marques
person.familyNamede Oliveira Madeira
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person.givenNameCarlos A.
person.givenNameJosé Eduardo
person.givenNameMiguel
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