The Cairo Petrified Forest revisited

El-Saadawi, Wagieh; Ziada, Nermeen; El-Faramawi, Marwa W.; El-Din, Marwah M. Kamal; Loutfy, Mohamed H.A.

doi:10.1016/j.revpalbo.2016.12.001

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“…Data in keys I and II are based on descriptions of fossil wood species in original literature: (Unger, 1823;Felix, 1883;Schenk, 1883;Stenzel, 1904;Krӓusel & Stromer, 1924;Bancroft, 1935;Krӓusel, 1939;Sahni, 1964;Louvet, 1965;Müller-Stoll & Mädel, 1967;Lemoigne & Beauchamp, 1972;Mädel-Angeliewa & Müller-Stoll, 1973;Prakash & Bande, 1980;Süss, 1987;Cevallos-Ferriz & Barajas-Morales, 1994;Mehrotra et al, 1999;El-Saadawi et al, 2011;El-Saadawi et al, 2017;Nour-El-Deen et al, 2018) together with the additional references mentioned in Tables 1 and 2. Additional data was extracted from the insidewood database (InsideWood, 2004 onwards;Wheeler, 2011) for dicot wood species.…”

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confidence: 99%

Egyptian Fossil Angiosperm Wood: A Guide to their Anatomical Identification

El–Noamani

2020

Egypt. J. Bot.

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A FEW of the existing publications on Egyptian fossil plants provide special aids to identifying fossil wood remains. Two dichotomous keys to the angiosperm petrified wood species reported to date from the Egyptian strata are presented here to facilitate the tentative identification of angiosperm fossil wood specimens. The first key includes 19 species of Palmoxylon which is the morphogenus for the petrified palm stem that is the common representative of monocotyledones (Arecaceae) in the Egyptian fossil flora and can be identified to the species level. The second key contains 46 species of dicotyledonous petrified wood of different families reported in the literature from different ages and locations in Egypt. These keys would benefit palaeobotanists who might find the literature on Egyptian fossil wood not easily accessible.

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Section: Methodsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Egyptian Fossil Angiosperm Wood: A Guide to their Anatomical Identification

El–Noamani

2020

Egypt. J. Bot.

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“…The Cairo Petrified Forest (CPF) is considered as the most famous petrified forest in Egypt, with the most diverse Oligocene assemblage. A comprehensive overview of all the paleobotanical data about the CPF was presented in El-Saadawi et al (2017). It has to be mentioned that three monocot woods are reported from the CPF in addition to the 27 dicot woods reported from there (El-Saadawi et al 2020).…”

Section: Oligocene Epoch (34-23 Mya)mentioning

confidence: 99%

“…This fact pinpoints to the progressive water stress and lack of heavy rainfall that affected the climate of Egypt, as perennial trees were mostly found in the Cretaceous and Early Cenozoic. The domination of the herbaceous forms in the Quaternary is a recent adaptation to overcome the water stress (El-Saadawi et al 2017).…”

Section: Miocene Epoch (23-5 Mya)mentioning

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Paleoclimates of the Cenozoic of Egypt: Evidence from Fossil Plants

Ziada

El-Saadawi²

2022

Taeckholmia

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Paleoclimatology is the study and reconstruction of past climates for which direct measurements were not taken. Paleoclimatologists, paleobotanists and geologists use a number of proxies to study the past climatic changes and to understand the natural variation and evolution of the current situation; as climate change in the 21 st century has been regarded as a threatening issue. Paleoclimate interpretation using fossil plants is one of the most important contributions of paleobotany to earth sciences, as they are considered as reliable indicators of long-term climatic changes, especially during the Cenozoic era; which encompassed a wide range of climates. Research work on the fossil flora of Egypt has started 150 years ago; with paleoclimate inferences being displayed in the different references. Thus, this review collates all the Egyptian paleobotanical and paleopalynological data to reconstruct the Cenozoic climate in Egypt. Spanning through the epochs of the Cenozoic era; woods, leaves, fruits, seeds, pollen and spores have been recorded from different sites. Apparently, the paleoenvironments differed but a tropical to subtropical climate was prevalent during the Cenozoic in Egypt. However, the usage of different proxies, other than fossil plants will reveal a better picture of the past climate.

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