A Cooksonia-type flora from the Upper Silurian of the Holy Cross Mountains, Poland
Adam Bodzioch, Wojciech Kozłowski, and Anna Popławska
Silurian land plants from the Holy Cross Mts. are described for the first time. The fossil assemblage occurs in a near-shore, marine, terrigenous deposit of Ludlowian/Pridolian age. It contains Cooksonia sp., Cooksonia-related species, and some problematical forms. The flora, which needs further study, is of importance to our understanding of early vascular plants and Late Silurian palaeogeography.
Adam Bodzioch [adambod@amu.edu.pl] and Anna Popławska [apop@go2.pl], Uniwersytet im. A. Mickiewicza, Instytut Geologii, ul. Maków Polnych 16, PL−61−606 Poznań, Poland; Wojciech Kozłowski [woko@geo.uw.edu.pl], Uniwersytet Warszawski, Wydział Geologii, ul. Żwirki i Wigury 93, PL−02−089 Warszawa, Poland.
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