What is it about?
This paper documents the fossil flora from the small San Giorgio Basin in Sardinia. The flora is dominated by horsetails, but the rest of the assemblage points to it being of late Moscovian age. It can be compared with other so-called post-Leonian fossil floras from northern Spain, the United Kingdom, the Canadian Maritimes and central Bohemia.
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Why is it important?
This is a representative of the vegetation (known as the post-Leonian floras) that developed across Euramerica, in response to late Moscovian climate and landscape change, which in turn was caused by Variscan tectonic activity.
Perspectives
This paper reflects the importance of detailed taxonomic work on these fossil floras, for developing a proper understanding of the vegetation, landscape and climate history of Euramerica during the Variscan Orogeny.
Christopher Cleal
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This page is a summary of: Middle Pennsylvanian vegetation of the San Giorgio Basin, southern Sardinia (Italy), Geological Magazine, October 2016, Cambridge University Press,
DOI: 10.1017/s0016756816000765.
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