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Comparing the European and Arctic Palaeogene floras, two major groups of elements can be recognized in the Holarctic. The first includes the ancient Arcto-Tertiary elements of Engler, or the Greenland flora of Kryshtofovich. These partly extinct genera of angiosperms, some conifers and ferns entered Europe in the Palaeocene via the Brito-Arctic Igneous Province but behaved differently in distribution and survival (e.g. Metasequoia, Trochodendroides, Fagopsis, Corylites, Ushia, Palaeocarpinus, Platanus schimperi, Macclintockia). The second group, the modern Arcto-Tertiary elements, or the Turgai flora of Kryshtofovich, invaded Europe in waves since the Oligocene, mostly from the east. Its components evolved independently at high or middle latitudes in East Asia and western North America, prevailingly in the Early Palaeogene (e.g. Pseudolarix, Cercidiphyllum, Alnus, Craigia, Banisteriaecarpum, Acer, Fraxinus). Thus the Arcto-Tertiary Geoflora as visualized by Chaney and others becomes a heterogenous suite of elements that differ in ecological demands as well as evolutionary history.
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Kvaček, Z. (1994). Connecting Links between the Arctic Palaeogene and European Tertiary Floras. 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_18
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