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III.—On the Occurrence of a Ceratozamia in the Tertiary Flora of Leoben in Styria

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 May 2009

Constantin Baron von Ettingshausen
Affiliation:
Professor of Botany, University of Graz, Austria.

Extract

Mr. Adolph Hoffmann has kindly sent me a large series of fossil plants from the Tertiary strata of Leoben containing a very rich fossil flora. On examining the latter, I discovered a fossil leaf, which I at once recognized as a Cycad.

Remains of that family of plants are extraordinarily rare in the Tertiary strata of Europe. They are limited almost entirely to the Eocene formation. The occurrence, therefore, of such a fossil in the Tertiary flora of Leoben, which belongs to the Miocene period, calls forth the greatest interest, and I shall not fail to give a preliminary notice on the subject to palaeontologists.

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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1888

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