Boreotropical flora

Boreotropical flora were plants that may have formed a belt of vegetation around the Northern Hemisphere during the Eocene epoch. These included forests composed of large, fast-growing trees (such as dawn redwoods) as far north as 80°N.

See also

Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum

References

Fossil Forests and Palaeoecology of the Cretaceous and Tertiary

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