What is it about?
The paper collates and revises the records of Coal Measures plant fossils from the South Wales Coalfield. It examines the patterns of biostratigraphical distribution of the species and identifies the positions of he biozones. It also investigates the changing patterns of species diversity through the sequence and discusses the various factors that affected this, including climate and landscape changes.
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Why is it important?
The South Wales Coalfield is the only place in Europe with a complete succession of Westphalian age coal-bearing strata with abundant fossil floras. It therefore offers a unique opportunity to investigate changing vegetation patterns through this time interval, which coincided with the first major glacial interval of the Late Palaeozoic Ice Age.
Perspectives
The study reflects the importance of conserving museum collections that allow scientific investigations when the opportunities to collect new material is absent or limited.
Christopher Cleal
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This page is a summary of: The Westphalian–Stephanian macrofloral record from the South Wales Coalfield, UK, Geological Magazine, March 2007, Cambridge University Press,
DOI: 10.1017/s0016756807003305.
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