DATE2016-06-02 22:03:46
IDABSTRACT20160602220346-1031
CONTACTdmantzouka@yahoo.gr
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TITLEFOSSIL LAURACEOUS WOODS FROM THE EASTERN MEDITERRANEAN (LESBOS AND LEMNOS ISLANDS, GREECE) AS A TOOL FOR PALAEOCLIMATIC RECONSTRUCTION.
AUTHORSDimitra Mantzouka (1), Jakub Sakala (2), Vasileios Karakitsios (1)
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  1. National And Kapodistrian University Of Athens, Department Of Geology And Geoenvironment Athens (Greece)
  2. Institute Of Geology And Palaeontology, Charles University Prague (Czech Republic)
ABSTRACTLauraceae is a family distributed worldwide with about 50 genera and more than 2500 species of mainly evergreen woods and shrubs. The fossil Tertiary members of Lauraceae in Europe are important because they are the most common trees and generally indicate warm climate with high humidity at the atmosphere even during the coolest season. Laurinoxylon is a huge fossil genus for woods that cannot be directly related to a botanical genus. The microscopic study of the new lauraceous findings from Lesbos and Lemnos Island (Greece, Eastern Mediterranean) discovered in 2011 and 2012 - along with the re-study of Laurinoxylon holotypes from Czech Republic and Hungary - gave birth to a new identification key for fossil lauraceous wood (Using idioblasts to group Laurinoxylon species - Case study from the Oligo-Miocene of Europe. Mantzouka D., Karakitsios V., Sakala J. & Wheeler E. IAWA Journal, in press). The newly accepted more natural classification of the large and rather artificial fossil genus Laurinoxylon is universal and directly linked to the modern botany. The present study is focused on using the latter discussed methodology as a good tool for further systematic and stratigraphic studies, but also for palaeoclimatic estimations used both by palaeontologists and geologists.
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