Phoenicites

Extinct genus of palms

Phoenicites

Temporal range: Cretaceous \- Miocene

PreꞒ

Fossil of Phoenicites from Italy
Scientific classification
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Plantae

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Angiosperms

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Monocots

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Commelinids

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Arecales

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Arecaceae

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Phoenicites

Brongniart 1828

Phoenicites is a morphogenus for palm tree leaf fossils with a pinnate veination.[1][2]

## Fossil record

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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).[3] and in the Vegroni mountain of Italy.[citation needed]

## References

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1. ^ Museum National d’Histoire Naturelle
2. ^ Greenwood, D. R.; Conran, J. G.; West, C. K. (2022). "Palm fronds from western Canada are the northernmost palms from the Late Cretaceous of North America and may include the oldest Arecaceae". Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology. 301: Article 104641. Bibcode:2022RPaPa.30104641G. doi:10.1016/j.revpalbo.2022.104641. S2CID 247343236.
3. ^ Paleobiology Database

## Bibliography

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* Fossilium Catalogus. II. Plantae. Pars 54
* A. T. Brongniart. 1828. Prodrome d'une histoire des végétaux fossiles.
* Edward Wilber Berry The Middle and Upper Eocene Floras of Southeastern North America
* Robert W. Read and Leo J. Hickey A Revised Classification of Fossil Palm and Palm-like Leaves Vol. 21, No. 1 (Feb., 1972), pp. 129–137 - International Association for Plant Taxonomy (IAPT) - DOI: 10.2307/1219237
* Emanuil Palamarev, Goran Kitanov, Krassimira Staneva, Vladimir Bozukov Fossil flora from Paleogene sediments in the northern area of the Mesta Graben in the Western Rhodopes. II. Analysis and stratigraphic importance of the flora

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Taxon identifiers

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* Wikidata: Q41804831
* Paleobiology Database: 273521

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