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Two Conifers — Tetraclinis Mast. (Cupressaceae) and Metasequoia Miki (Taxodiaceae) — Relicts or Palaeoclimatic Indicators of the Past

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Cenozoic Plants and Climates of the Arctic

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Abstract

Today Tetraclinis Mast. (Cupressaceae) and Metasequoia Miki (Taxodiaceae) are monotypic relict conifers with a successively narrowed geographical range and a reduced number of species since the Tertiary. The former genus occurred frequently in many palaeofloras from the Palaeocene to the Pliocene in Europe and still remains an endemic in S.W. Europe and N. Africa. The latter genus covered much of the northern hemisphere from the Late Cretaceous to the Pliocene but extended in to the edges of Europe only for a short time. Changes in ecological tolerances obviously brought about the range restriction to the west Mediterranean arid area (Tetraclinis) and the central Chinese humid floral province (Metasequoia). Recent relicts should be considered inaccurate indicators in the Tertiary because the ecological tolerances shown by the relict species may be very different from those of their Tertiary representatives.

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Mai, D.H. (1994). Two Conifers — Tetraclinis Mast. (Cupressaceae) and Metasequoia Miki (Taxodiaceae) — Relicts or Palaeoclimatic Indicators of the Past. In: Boulter, M.C., Fisher, H.C. (eds) Cenozoic Plants and Climates of the Arctic. NATO ASI Series, vol 27. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-79378-3_14

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