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ECOLOGICAL AND PALYNOLOGICAL NOTES ON PELLICIERA RHIZOPHORAE
Author(s) -
Fuchs H. P.
Publication year - 1970
Publication title -
acta botanica neerlandica
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.871
H-Index - 87
eISSN - 1438-8677
pISSN - 0044-5983
DOI - 10.1111/j.1438-8677.1970.tb00192.x
Subject(s) - pollen , mangrove , palynology , ecology , biology , geography , deposition (geology) , botany , paleontology , sediment
SUMMARY Pelliciera rhizophorae is now found almost exclusively along the Colombian Pacific Coast, but its pollen is found in the Oligo/Miocene of Nigeria, Mexico, and Northern South America, Differentiation between the pollen of Pelliciera rhizophorae and the genus Hura which often have been lumped together, may permit a finer paleoecological interpretation. Relatively high percentages of huroid pollen alone may point to deposition outside a mangrove belt and to a climate with a rather pronounced dry season. Pellicieroid pollen without huroid pollen but frequently associated with rhizophoroid pollen may indicate deposition near a pronounced mangrove belt and a humid climate without pronounced seasonal changes. Huroid pollen associated with pellicieroid and rhizophoroid pollen may point to transport of the former from areas with a relatively dry season into a depositional area in the neighbourhood of a mangrove belt.